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title: An expected 50% increase in passenger traffic by 2017 has spurred th… — Astana · tree and pragmatics
description: An expected 50% increase in passenger traffic by 2017 has spurred the construction of a new terminal with an area of about 40000 m2. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Astana» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Astana, sentence 235

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From Wikipedia, [«Astana»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astana), 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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An expected 50% increase in passenger traffic by 2017 has spurred the construction of a new terminal with an area of about 40000 m2.

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**What happens:** expect, spur, construct · **To what, where:** expected % increase, new terminal

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Astana». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:Astana:235
# text = An expected 50% increase in passenger traffic by 2017 has spurred the construction of a new terminal with an area of about 40000 m2.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
3	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	increase	increase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	passenger	passenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	_
11	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	spurred	spur	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	terminal	terminal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	about	about	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	40000	40000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nmod	_	_
25	m2	m2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **spur** | present · perfect · passive |  | a expected % increase in passenger traffic by 2017 |  |  |  | the construction of a new terminal with a area of 40000 *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **construct** |  |  | a new terminal with a area of 40000 |  |  |  |  | nom construction «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, «Astana», 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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