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title: The 1959 census recorded a population of 169,900, which grew to 338,… — Ashgabat · tree and pragmatics
description: The 1959 census recorded a population of 169,900, which grew to 338,000 by 1983, including 105 nationalities, of which ethnic Armenians constituted 40 percent. Who acts: 1959 census, population, ethnic Armenians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ashgabat» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ashgabat, sentence 185

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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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The 1959 census recorded a population of 169,900, which grew to 338,000 by 1983, including 105 nationalities, of which ethnic Armenians constituted 40 percent.

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**Who acts:** 1959 census, population, ethnic Armenians · **What happens:** record, grow, include, constitute · **To what, where:** 40 percent

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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 (1959 census, population, ethnic Armenians), 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:185
# text = The 1959 census recorded a population of 169,900, which grew to 338,000 by 1983, including 105 nationalities, of which ethnic Armenians constituted 40 percent.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	1959	1959	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	census	census	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	recorded	record	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	169,900	169,900	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	338,000	338,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	1983	1983	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	including	include	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	case	_	_
18	105	105	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	nationalities	nationality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
23	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Armenians	Armenian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
25	constituted	constitute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	percent	percent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **record** | past | the 1959 census |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grow** | past | a population of 169,900 |  |  |  |  | to 338,000 *result*; by 1983; include 105 nationalities  ethnic Armenians of 105 nationalities  ethnic Armenians of 105 nationalities; which *nsubj* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient to 338,000=Result by 1983=Extent |
| 3 | **include** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **constitute** | participle | ethnic Armenians of 105 nationalities  ethnic Armenians of 105 nationalities  ethnic Armenians *not said here* | 40 percent |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme percent=Pivot |

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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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