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title: The first time Dushanbe appeared in the historical record was in 167… — Dushanbe · tree and pragmatics
description: The first time Dushanbe appeared in the historical record was in 1676, in a letter sent from the Balkh khan Subhonquli Bahodur to Fyodor III, the Tsar of Russia. Who acts: Dushanbe. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dushanbe» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dushanbe, sentence 40

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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 first time Dushanbe appeared in the historical record was in 1676, in a letter sent from the Balkh khan Subhonquli Bahodur to Fyodor III, the Tsar of Russia.

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**Who acts:** Dushanbe · **What happens:** appear, be, send · **To what, where:** letter, 1676, Fyodor, Balkh khan

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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 (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:40
# text = The first time Dushanbe appeared in the historical record was in 1676, in a letter sent from the Balkh khan Subhonquli Bahodur to Fyodor III, the Tsar of Russia.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	Dushanbe	Dushanbe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1676	1676	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
17	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Balkh	Balkh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	khan	khan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	Subhonquli	Subhonquli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
23	Bahodur	Bahodur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Fyodor	Fyodor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
26	III	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	25	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | Dushanbe |  |  | a letter | time |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in letter=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  | 1676 |  | in the historical record | tree rules |
| 3 | **send** | participle |  | a letter *not said here* | Fyodor | the Balkh khan |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from khan=Initial\_Location to fyodor=Destination |

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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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