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title: The House of Worship itself was surrounded by gardens, with four bui… — Ashgabat · tree and pragmatics
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# Ashgabat, sentence 241

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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 House of Worship itself was surrounded by gardens, with four buildings at the four corners of the gardens: a school, a hostel where travelling Bahá'ís were entertained, a small hospital, and a building for groundskeepers.

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**Who acts:** gardens, Bahá'ís · **What happens:** surround, travel, be · **To what, where:** House

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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 (gardens, Bahá'ís), 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:241
# text = The House of Worship itself was surrounded by gardens, with four buildings at the four corners of the gardens: a school, a hostel where travelling Bahá'ís were entertained, a small hospital, and a building for groundskeepers.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Worship	Worship	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	parataxis	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	corners	corner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	hostel	hostel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
27	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
28	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
29	Bahá'ís	Bahá'ís	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	entertained	entertained	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	groundskeepers	groundskeeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surround** | past · passive | gardens | the House of Worship  community |  |  |  | four buildings at the four corners of the gardens and a school and a small hospital *parataxis*; a building for groundskeepers *parataxis* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **travel** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | Bahá'ís |  |  |  |  | entertained *property* | tree rules |

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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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