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title: The strategic geographical positioning of Astana allows the city to… — Astana · tree and pragmatics
description: The strategic geographical positioning of Astana allows the city to serve as a transport and reload centre for cargoes formed at adjacent stations in the area. Who acts: strategic geographical positioning. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Astana» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Astana, sentence 242

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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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The strategic geographical positioning of Astana allows the city to serve as a transport and reload centre for cargoes formed at adjacent stations in the area.

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**Who acts:** strategic geographical positioning · **What happens:** allow, serve, form, position · **To what, where:** city, cargoes, adjacent stations, Astana

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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: who acts (strategic geographical positioning), 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:242
# text = The strategic geographical positioning of Astana allows the city to serve as a transport and reload centre for cargoes formed at adjacent stations in the area.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	strategic	strategic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	geographical	geographical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	positioning	positioning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Astana	Astana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	allows	allow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	transport	transport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	reload	reload	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	cargoes	cargo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	adjacent	adjacent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	stations	station	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | present | the strategic geographical positioning of Astana | the city |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **serve** | to-infinitive | the strategic geographical positioning of Astana *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a transport and reload centre for cargoes | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as transport=Attribute |
| 3 | **form** | participle |  | cargoes *not said here* |  | adjacent stations in the area |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at station=Location |
| 4 | **position** |  |  | Astana |  |  |  |  | nom positioning «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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