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title: The city architect's office was created in 1936 but was unable to im… — Ashgabat · tree and pragmatics
description: The city architect's office was created in 1936 but was unable to implement the new master plan "as it implied significant demolition of the existing buildings". Who acts: office. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ashgabat» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ashgabat, sentence 39

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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 city architect's office was created in 1936 but was unable to implement the new master plan "as it implied significant demolition of the existing buildings".

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**Who acts:** office · **What happens:** create, be, implement, imply, exist, demolish · **To what, where:** office, 1936, new master plan, significant demolition, existing buildings

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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 (office), 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:39
# text = The city architect's office was created in 1936 but was unable to implement the new master plan "as it implied significant demolition of the existing buildings".
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	architect	architect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	created	create	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1936	1936	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	implement	implement	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	implied	imply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
23	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	demolition	demolition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	existing	exist	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	amod	_	_
28	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **create** | past · passive |  | the city architect's office |  | 1936 |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | unable *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **implement** | to-infinitive |  | the new master plan |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient |
| 4 | **imply** *in a quote* | past | office | significant demolition of the existing buildings |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot demolition=Topic |
| 5 | **exist** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **demolish** *in a quote* |  |  | the existing buildings |  |  |  |  | nom demolition «event 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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