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title: This reconstruction "preserved the existing network of city streets… — Ashgabat · tree and pragmatics
description: This reconstruction "preserved the existing network of city streets as it was economically unjustified to redesign them". Who acts: reconstruction, it. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ashgabat» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ashgabat, sentence 51

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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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This reconstruction "preserved the existing network of city streets as it was economically unjustified to redesign them".

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**Who acts:** reconstruction, it · **What happens:** preserve, exist, be, redesign · **To what, where:** existing network, streets · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (reconstruction, it), 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:51
# text = This reconstruction "preserved the existing network of city streets as it was economically unjustified to redesign them".
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	reconstruction	reconstruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	existing	exist	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	network	network	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	economically	economically	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	unjustified	unjustified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	redesign	redesign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	csubj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **preserve** *in a quote* | past | this reconstruction | the existing network of city streets |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent network=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **exist** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | it |  |  |  |  | economically, unjustified *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **redesign** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | streets *= street* |  |  |  |  | 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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