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title: These are administrative units that possess no independent governanc… — Ashgabat · tree and pragmatics
description: These are administrative units that possess no independent governance structures. Who acts: These, administrative units. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ashgabat» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ashgabat, sentence 164

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From Wikipedia, [«Ashgabat»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashgabat), 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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These are administrative units that possess no independent governance structures.

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**Who acts:** These, administrative units · **What happens:** be, possess · **To what, where:** administrative units, independent governance structures

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ashgabat». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These, administrative units), 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:Ashgabat:164
# text = These are administrative units that possess no independent governance structures.
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	units	unit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	possess	possess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
8	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	governance	governance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	structures	structure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | These | administrative units |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **possess** | present | administrative units | no independent governance structures |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot structure=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, «Ashgabat», 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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