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title: Achaemenid dishes and ceramics were found 6 km east of Dushanbe in Q… — Dushanbe · tree and pragmatics
description: Achaemenid dishes and ceramics were found 6 km east of Dushanbe in Qiblai, as the city was controlled by the Achaemenids from the sixth century BC. Who acts: Achaemenids. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dushanbe» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dushanbe, sentence 20

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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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Achaemenid dishes and ceramics were found 6 km east of Dushanbe in Qiblai, as the city was controlled by the Achaemenids from the sixth century BC.

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**Who acts:** Achaemenids · **What happens:** find, control · **To what, where:** Achaemenid dishes, city

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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 (Achaemenids), 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:20
# text = Achaemenid dishes and ceramics were found 6 km east of Dushanbe in Qiblai, as the city was controlled by the Achaemenids from the sixth century BC.
1	Achaemenid	Achaemenid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	ceramics	ceramic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Dushanbe	Dushanbe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Qiblai	Qiblai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	controlled	control	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Achaemenids	Achaemenid	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	obl:agent	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	sixth	sixth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
27	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past · passive |  | Achaemenid dishes and ceramics |  |  |  | 6 km east of Dushanbe in Qiblai *obj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme east=Attribute |
| 2 | **control** | past · passive | the Achaemenids | the city |  |  | century |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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, «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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