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title: Earthquakes were less frightening in such houses, and behind the thi… — Ashgabat · tree and pragmatics
description: Earthquakes were less frightening in such houses, and behind the thick walls even in the hottest months some measure of indoor coolness was retained. Who acts: Earthquakes. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ashgabat» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ashgabat, sentence 30

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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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Earthquakes were less frightening in such houses, and behind the thick walls even in the hottest months some measure of indoor coolness was retained.

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**Who acts:** Earthquakes · **What happens:** be, retain, measure · **To what, where:** such houses, measure, thick walls, indoor coolness

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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 (Earthquakes), 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:30
# text = Earthquakes were less frightening in such houses, and behind the thick walls even in the hottest months some measure of indoor coolness was retained.
1	Earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	frightening	frightening	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
10	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
14	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	hottest	hot	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	indoor	indoor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	coolness	coolness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	retained	retain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Earthquakes |  |  | such houses |  | frightening, less *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **retain** | past · passive |  | some measure of indoor coolness |  | the thick walls | month |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **measure** |  |  | indoor coolness |  |  |  |  | nom measure «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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