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title: He fought the Bukharan khans Baki-Muhammad and Imamkuli for control… — Kazakhstan · tree and pragmatics
description: He fought the Bukharan khans Baki-Muhammad and Imamkuli for control of the Syr Darya and Tashkent, seeking to reunify the Kazakh Khanate. Who acts: Esim. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kazakhstan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kazakhstan, sentence 152

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From Wikipedia, [«Kazakhstan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan), 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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He fought the Bukharan khans Baki-Muhammad and Imamkuli for control of the Syr Darya and Tashkent, seeking to reunify the Kazakh Khanate.

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**Who acts:** Esim · **What happens:** fight, seek, reunify · **To what, where:** Bukharan khans, Kazakh Khanate

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kazakhstan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Esim), 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:Kazakhstan:152
# text = He fought the Bukharan khans Baki-Muhammad and Imamkuli for control of the Syr Darya and Tashkent, seeking to reunify the Kazakh Khanate.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Bukharan	Bukharan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	khans	khan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	Baki	Baki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Muhammad	Muhammad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Imamkuli	Imamkuli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Syr	Syr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Darya	Darya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Tashkent	Tashkent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	reunify	reunify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Kazakh	Kazakh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Khanate	Khanate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | past | Esim | the Bukharan khans |  |  |  | for control of the Syr Darya and Tashkent | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent khan=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **seek** | gerund | Esim *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **reunify** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Esim *not said here* | the Kazakh Khanate |  |  |  |  | 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, «Kazakhstan», 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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