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title: It was connected to Istanbul by railway before the First World War,… — Ankara · tree and pragmatics
description: It was connected to Istanbul by railway before the First World War, continuing to export mohair, wool, berries, and grain. Who acts: railway. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ankara» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ankara, sentence 170

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From Wikipedia, [«Ankara»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankara), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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It was connected to Istanbul by railway before the First World War, continuing to export mohair, wool, berries, and grain.

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**Who acts:** railway · **What happens:** connect, continue, export · **To what, where:** goat, Istanbul, mohair

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ankara». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (railway), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Ankara:170
# text = It was connected to Istanbul by railway before the First World War, continuing to export mohair, wool, berries, and grain.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Istanbul	Istanbul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	First	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
11	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	continuing	continue	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	export	export	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	mohair	mohair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **connect** | past · passive | railway | goat | Istanbul |  | before the First World War | grain *obl* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient to istanbul=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **continue** | gerund | railway *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **export** | to-infinitive | railway *not said here* | mohair and wool and berries |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mohair=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Ankara», 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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