Turkmenistan, sentence 99
From Wikipedia, «Turkmenistan», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Turkmenistan contains seven terrestrial ecoregions: Alai-Western Tian Shan steppe, Kopet Dag woodlands and forest steppe, Badghyz and Karabil semi-desert, Caspian lowland desert, Central Asian riparian woodlands, Central Asian southern desert, and Kopet Dag semi-desert.
Who acts: Turkmenistan, Alai · What happens: contain, steppe · To what, where: seven terrestrial ecoregions
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Turkmenistan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Turkmenistan, Alai), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turkmenistan | turkmenistan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 contains | nsubj |
| 2 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 ecoregions | nummod |
| 4 | terrestrial | terrestrial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ecoregions | amod |
| 5 | ecoregions | ecoregion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 contains | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 steppe | punct |
| 7 | Alai | Alai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 steppe | nsubj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Alai | punct |
| 9 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 steppe | amod |
| 10 | Tian | tian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 steppe | amod |
| 11 | Shan | Shan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 steppe | compound |
| 12 | steppe | steppe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ecoregions | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 woodlands | punct |
| 14 | Kopet | Kopet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 woodlands | compound |
| 15 | Dag | Dag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Kopet | flat |
| 16 | woodlands | woodland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 steppe | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 steppe | cc |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 steppe | compound |
| 19 | steppe | steppe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 woodlands | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Badghyz | punct |
| 21 | Badghyz | Badghyz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 woodlands | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Karabil | cc |
| 23 | Karabil | Karabil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Badghyz | conj |
| 24 | semi-desert | semi-desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Badghyz | list |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 desert | punct |
| 26 | Caspian | Caspian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 desert | compound |
| 27 | lowland | lowland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 desert | compound |
| 28 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Badghyz | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 woodlands | punct |
| 30 | Central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 woodlands | amod |
| 31 | Asian | Asian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 woodlands | amod |
| 32 | riparian | riparian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 woodlands | compound |
| 33 | woodlands | woodland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 steppe | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 desert | punct |
| 35 | Central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 desert | amod |
| 36 | Asian | Asian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 desert | amod |
| 37 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 desert | amod |
| 38 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 steppe | parataxis |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 semi-desert | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 semi-desert | cc |
| 41 | Kopet | Kopet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 semi-desert | compound |
| 42 | Dag | Dag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Kopet | flat |
| 43 | semi-desert | semi-desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 contains | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 contains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | present | Turkmenistan | seven terrestrial ecoregions | Kopet semi-desert conj | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ecoregion=Theme | |||
| 2 | steppe | Alai | Kopet woodlands Badghyz semi-desert and Karabil and Caspian lowland desert and forest steppe conj; Central Asian riparian woodlands conj; Central Asian southern desert parataxis | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Turkmenistan», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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