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title: Viktor Bout (born 1967), Russian convicted arms dealer — Dushanbe · tree and pragmatics
description: Viktor Bout (born 1967), Russian convicted arms dealer Who acts: Viktor. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dushanbe» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dushanbe, sentence 497

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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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Viktor Bout (born 1967), Russian convicted arms dealer

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**Who acts:** Viktor · **What happens:** bear, convict · **To what, where:** 1967, arms dealer

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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 (Viktor), 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:497
# text = Viktor Bout (born 1967), Russian convicted arms dealer
1	Viktor	Viktor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	Bout	Bout	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
5	1967	1967	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	Russian	Russian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	convicted	convict	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	compound	_	_
11	dealer	dealer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle | Viktor *not said here* | 1967 |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 1967=Patient |
| 2 | **convict** | past | Viktor | arms dealer |  |  |  | Russian *nsubj* | tree rules |

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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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