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title: But Tokayev's presidency faced significant challenges. — Kazakhstan · tree and pragmatics
description: But Tokayev's presidency faced significant challenges. Who acts: presidency. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kazakhstan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kazakhstan, sentence 254

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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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But Tokayev's presidency faced significant challenges.

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**Who acts:** presidency · **What happens:** face · **To what, where:** significant challenges

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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 (presidency), 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:254
# text = But Tokayev's presidency faced significant challenges.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Tokayev	Tokayev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	presidency	presidency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	faced	face	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	challenges	challenge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **face** | past | Tokayev's presidency | significant challenges |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme challenge=Destination |

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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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