--- title: President Nazarbayev said of the war in Ukraine, "The fratricidal wa… — Kazakhstan · tree and pragmatics description: President Nazarbayev said of the war in Ukraine, "The fratricidal war has brought true devastation to eastern Ukraine, and it is a common task to stop the war there, strengthen Ukraine's independence and secure territorial integrity of Ukraine." Who acts: Nazarbayev, devastation. 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President Nazarbayev said of the war in Ukraine, "The fratricidal war has brought true devastation to eastern Ukraine, and it is a common task to stop the war there, strengthen Ukraine's independence and secure territorial integrity of Ukraine." **Who acts:** Nazarbayev, devastation · **What happens:** say, bring, be, stop, strengthen · **To what, where:** fratricidal war, eastern Ukraine, common task, war, independence · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Nazarbayev, devastation), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:359 # text = President Nazarbayev said of the war in Ukraine, "The fratricidal war has brought true devastation to eastern Ukraine, and it is a common task to stop the war there, strengthen Ukraine's independence and secure territorial integrity of Ukraine." 1 President President PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod:desc _ _ 2 Nazarbayev Nazarbayev PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Ukraine Ukraine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 fratricidal fratricidal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 16 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 devastation devastation NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 eastern eastern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 Ukraine Ukraine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 task task NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 29 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 strengthen strengthen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 35 Ukraine Ukraine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 36 's 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 independence independence NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 secure secure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 territorial territorial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 integrity integrity NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 Ukraine Ukraine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Nazarbayev President | | | | | of the war in Ukraine | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bring** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | the fratricidal war | eastern Ukraine | | | true devastation *obj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination devastation=Theme | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | devastation | a common task | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **stop** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Nazarbayev President *not said here* | the war | | there | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality war=Eventuality | | 5 | **strengthen** *in a quote* | infinitive | Nazarbayev President *not said here* | Ukraine's independence and secure territorial integrity of Ukraine | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent independence=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 358](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kazakhstan/358/) - next →: [sentence 360](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kazakhstan/360/) - ↑ back to [Kazakhstan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kazakhstan/)