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title: The mountains to the south provide a natural boundary and protection… — Bishkek · tree and pragmatics
description: The mountains to the south provide a natural boundary and protection from damaging weather, as does the smaller mountain chain that runs north-west to south-east. Who acts: mountains, smaller mountain chain. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bishkek» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bishkek, sentence 83

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From Wikipedia, [«Bishkek»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishkek), 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 mountains to the south provide a natural boundary and protection from damaging weather, as does the smaller mountain chain that runs north-west to south-east.

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**Who acts:** mountains, smaller mountain chain · **What happens:** provide, do, run · **To what, where:** natural boundary, smaller mountain chain, west, south east

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bishkek». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mountains, smaller mountain chain), 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:Bishkek:83
# text = The mountains to the south provide a natural boundary and protection from damaging weather, as does the smaller mountain chain that runs north-west to south-east.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	provide	provide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	boundary	boundary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	damaging	damaging	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
20	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	north	north	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** | infinitive | the mountains to the south | a natural boundary and protection from damaging weather |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition boundary=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | present | the mountains to the south *not said here* | the smaller mountain chain |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Eventuality |
| 3 | **run** | present | the smaller mountain chain | west |  | south east |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent west=Theme to east=Trajectory |

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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, «Bishkek», 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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