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title: The Tajik Opera and Ballet Theater also had the first ballet perform… — Dushanbe · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tajik Opera and Ballet Theater also had the first ballet performed in Dushanbe in 1941, entitled Two Roses, and the ballet troupe gradually grew over time. Who acts: Tajik Opera, ballet troupe. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dushanbe» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dushanbe, sentence 390

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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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The Tajik Opera and Ballet Theater also had the first ballet performed in Dushanbe in 1941, entitled Two Roses, and the ballet troupe gradually grew over time.

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**Who acts:** Tajik Opera, ballet troupe · **What happens:** have, perform, entitle, grow · **To what, where:** first ballet, Dushanbe, Two Roses

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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 (Tajik Opera, ballet troupe), 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:390
# text = The Tajik Opera and Ballet Theater also had the first ballet performed in Dushanbe in 1941, entitled Two Roses, and the ballet troupe gradually grew over time.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Tajik	Tajik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Opera	Opera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Ballet	Ballet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	Theater	Theater	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	ballet	ballet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	performed	perform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Dushanbe	Dushanbe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1941	1941	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	entitled	entitle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	Roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	ballet	ballet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	troupe	troupe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
28	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the Tajik Opera and Ballet | the first ballet |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ballet=Patient |
| 2 | **perform** | participle |  | the first ballet *not said here* |  | Dushanbe |  | in 1941 | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **entitle** | past | the Tajik Opera and Ballet *not said here* | Two Roses |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **grow** | past | the ballet troupe |  |  |  | time | gradually *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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