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title: In the 21st century, new construction projects such as tall skyscrap… — Dushanbe · tree and pragmatics
description: In the 21st century, new construction projects such as tall skyscrapers, a new parliament building, and the national museum were or are being built. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dushanbe» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dushanbe, sentence 279

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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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In the 21st century, new construction projects such as tall skyscrapers, a new parliament building, and the national museum were or are being built.

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**What happens:** build · **To what, where:** national museum

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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: 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:279
# text = In the 21st century, new construction projects such as tall skyscrapers, a new parliament building, and the national museum were or are being built.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	21st	21st	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	projects	project	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
9	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	skyscrapers	skyscraper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	museum	museum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
26	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past · passive |  | the national museum |  |  | century |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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