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title: In Soviet, Russian, and Kazakh historiography between 1917 and 1953,… — Kazakhstan · tree and pragmatics
description: In Soviet, Russian, and Kazakh historiography between 1917 and 1953, he was portrayed variously as a hero of the national liberation and anti-colonial struggle or as a "reactionary". A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kazakhstan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kazakhstan, sentence 180

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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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In Soviet, Russian, and Kazakh historiography between 1917 and 1953, he was portrayed variously as a hero of the national liberation and anti-colonial struggle or as a "reactionary".

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**What happens:** portray · **To what, where:** historiography

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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: 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:180
# text = In Soviet, Russian, and Kazakh historiography between 1917 and 1953, he was portrayed variously as a hero of the national liberation and anti-colonial struggle or as a "reactionary".
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	Kazakh	Kazakh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	historiography	historiography	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	between	between	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1917	1917	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	1953	1953	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	portrayed	portray	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
17	variously	variously	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	liberation	liberation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	anti-colonial	anti-colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	struggle	struggle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	reactionary	reactionary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **portray** | past · passive |  | historiography |  |  |  | as a hero of the national liberation and anti-colonial struggle or a reactionary; variously *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as hero=Attribute |

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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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