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title: In 2013, Ashgabat annexed a portion of the then-Ruhabat district of… — Ashgabat · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2013, Ashgabat annexed a portion of the then-Ruhabat district of Ahal Province as well as the city of Abadan (previously named Büzmeýin, and renamed that as a neighborhood) plus all land and villages in between. Who acts: Ashgabat. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ashgabat» with its dependency tree and
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# Ashgabat, sentence 66

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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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In 2013, Ashgabat annexed a portion of the then-Ruhabat district of Ahal Province as well as the city of Abadan (previously named Büzmeýin, and renamed that as a neighborhood) plus all land and villages in between.

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**Who acts:** Ashgabat · **What happens:** annex, name, rename · **To what, where:** portion, 2013, Abadan, that

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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 (Ashgabat), 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:66
# text = In 2013, Ashgabat annexed a portion of the then-Ruhabat district of Ahal Province as well as the city of Abadan (previously named Büzmeýin, and renamed that as a neighborhood) plus all land and villages in between.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2013	2013	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Ashgabat	Ashgabat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	annexed	annex	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Ruhabat	Ruhabat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	district	district	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Ahal	Ahal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Province	Province	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	21	cc	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	fixed	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Abadan	Abadan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	previously	previously	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
27	Büzmeýin	Büzmeýin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	renamed	rename	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	obj	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
36	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	det	_	_
38	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	nmod	_	_
42	between	between	ADP	IN	_	41	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **annex** | past | Ashgabat | a portion of the Ruhabat district of Ahal Province as the city of Abadan |  | 2013 |  | all land and villages *conj* | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portion=Theme |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | Abadan *not said here* |  |  |  | Büzmeýin *xcomp*; previously *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rename** | past | Ashgabat *not said here* | that |  |  |  | as a neighborhood | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |

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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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