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title: Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloev was declared mayor of Dushanbe in 1996, after… — Dushanbe · tree and pragmatics
description: Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloev was declared mayor of Dushanbe in 1996, after during the civil war era many said he was in real control of the government. Who acts: many, Dushanbe. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dushanbe» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dushanbe, sentence 124

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From Wikipedia, [«Dushanbe»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dushanbe), 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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Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloev was declared mayor of Dushanbe in 1996, after during the civil war era many said he was in real control of the government.

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**Who acts:** many, Dushanbe · **What happens:** declare, say, be · **To what, where:** Mahmadsaid, 1996, civil war era, real control · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Dushanbe». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many, Dushanbe), 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:Dushanbe:124
# text = Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloev was declared mayor of Dushanbe in 1996, after during the civil war era many said he was in real control of the government.
1	Mahmadsaid	Mahmadsaid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Ubaidulloev	Ubaidulloev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	declared	declare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	mayor	mayor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Dushanbe	Dushanbe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1996	1996	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	during	during	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nsubj	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | Mahmadsaid |  | 1996 |  | mayor of Dushanbe *xcomp*; the civil war era *parataxis* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | many | the civil war era *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent era=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | past | Dushanbe |  |  | real control |  | of the government | 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, «Dushanbe», 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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