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title: The unrest quickly escalated, and Tokayev responded decisively by as… — Kazakhstan · tree and pragmatics
description: The unrest quickly escalated, and Tokayev responded decisively by assuming control of the country's Security Council, removing Nazarbayev from the post and consolidating his own power. Who acts: unrest, Tokayev. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kazakhstan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kazakhstan, sentence 256

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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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The unrest quickly escalated, and Tokayev responded decisively by assuming control of the country's Security Council, removing Nazarbayev from the post and consolidating his own power.

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**Who acts:** unrest, Tokayev · **What happens:** escalate, respond, assume, remove, consolidate · **To what, where:** control, Nazarbayev, post, own power

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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 (unrest, Tokayev), 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:256
# text = The unrest quickly escalated, and Tokayev responded decisively by assuming control of the country's Security Council, removing Nazarbayev from the post and consolidating his own power.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	unrest	unrest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	escalated	escalate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	Tokayev	Tokayev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	responded	respond	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	decisively	decisively	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	assuming	assume	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
12	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	Security	Security	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	removing	remove	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
21	Nazarbayev	Nazarbayev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	consolidating	consolidate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **escalate** | past | the unrest |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **respond** *speech: other* | past | Tokayev |  |  |  |  | decisively *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **assume** | gerund | Tokayev *not said here* | control of the country's Security Council |  |  |  |  | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=Theme |
| 4 | **remove** | gerund | Tokayev *not said here* | Nazarbayev |  | the post |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nazarbayev=Theme from post=Source |
| 5 | **consolidate** | gerund | Tokayev *not said here* | Tokayev's own power |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |

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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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