--- title: In 1871, a Russian visitor named Strebnitskiy counted over four thou… — Ashgabat · tree and pragmatics description: In 1871, a Russian visitor named Strebnitskiy counted over four thousand "nomad tents" (yurts), implying a population of 16 to 20 thousand Ahal Teke Turkmen, many of whom were killed or dispersed in the 1881 Battle of Geok Tepe. Who acts: Russian visitor. 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In 1871, a Russian visitor named Strebnitskiy counted over four thousand "nomad tents" (yurts), implying a population of 16 to 20 thousand Ahal Teke Turkmen, many of whom were killed or dispersed in the 1881 Battle of Geok Tepe. **Who acts:** Russian visitor · **What happens:** name, count, imply, kill, disperse · **To what, where:** Russian visitor, thousand nomad tents, 1871, population, many, 1881 Battle 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 (Russian visitor), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Ashgabat:173 # text = In 1871, a Russian visitor named Strebnitskiy counted over four thousand "nomad tents" (yurts), implying a population of 16 to 20 thousand Ahal Teke Turkmen, many of whom were killed or dispersed in the 1881 Battle of Geok Tepe. 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1871 1871 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 Russian Russian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 visitor visitor NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 Strebnitskiy Strebnitskiy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 xcomp _ _ 9 counted count VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 over over ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 compound _ _ 12 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 nomad nomad NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 tents tent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 yurts yurt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 implying imply VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 population population NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 compound _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nmod _ _ 28 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nmod _ _ 29 Ahal Ahal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod:unmarked _ _ 30 Teke Teke PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 flat _ _ 31 Turkmen Turkmen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 nsubj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 nmod _ _ 36 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ _ 38 or or CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 dispersed disperse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 conj _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 1881 1881 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 43 nummod _ _ 43 Battle Battle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 Geok Geok PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 46 Tepe Tepe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **name** | participle | | a Russian visitor *not said here* | | | | Strebnitskiy *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **count** | past | a Russian visitor | thousand nomad tents | | 1871 | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tent=Theme | | 3 | **imply** | gerund | a Russian visitor *not said here* | a population of 16 thousand Ahal | | | | | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot population=Topic | | 4 | **kill** | past · passive | | many | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **disperse** | participle | | | | the 1881 Battle of Geok | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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, «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. - ← previous: [sentence 172](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Ashgabat/172/) - next →: [sentence 174](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Ashgabat/174/) - ↑ back to [Ashgabat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Ashgabat/)