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title: Documentaries were also popular in this period, and the first featur… — Dushanbe · tree and pragmatics
description: Documentaries were also popular in this period, and the first feature film appeared in 1938. Who acts: Documentaries, first feature film. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dushanbe» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dushanbe, sentence 434

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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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Documentaries were also popular in this period, and the first feature film appeared in 1938.

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**Who acts:** Documentaries, first feature film · **What happens:** be, appear · **To what, where:** period, 1938

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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 (Documentaries, first feature film), 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:434
# text = Documentaries were also popular in this period, and the first feature film appeared in 1938.
1	Documentaries	documentary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
12	feature	feature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1938	1938	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Documentaries |  |  | this period |  | popular *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **appear** | past | the first feature film |  |  | 1938 |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1938=Location |

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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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