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title: In the 70s and 80s foreign plays, like Oedipus Rex, were introduced… — Dushanbe · tree and pragmatics
description: In the 70s and 80s foreign plays, like Oedipus Rex, were introduced to Dushanbe. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dushanbe» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dushanbe, sentence 400

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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 70s and 80s foreign plays, like Oedipus Rex, were introduced to Dushanbe.

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**What happens:** introduce · **To what, where:** Dushanbe, 70s

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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:400
# text = In the 70s and 80s foreign plays, like Oedipus Rex, were introduced to Dushanbe.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	70s	70s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	80s	80	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
6	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	plays	play	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Oedipus	Oedipus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Rex	Rex	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Dushanbe	Dushanbe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **introduce** | past · passive |  |  | Dushanbe | the 70s and 80s and foreign plays like Oedipus Rex |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: to dushanbe=Co-Patient |

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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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