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title: The main migrations of the Turkic peoples took place between the 5th… — Kazakhstan · tree and pragmatics
description: The main migrations of the Turkic peoples took place between the 5th and 11th centuries, during which Turkic-speaking groups spread across much of Central Asia. Who acts: main migrations, speaking groups, Turkic peoples. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kazakhstan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kazakhstan, sentence 45

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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 main migrations of the Turkic peoples took place between the 5th and 11th centuries, during which Turkic-speaking groups spread across much of Central Asia.

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**Who acts:** main migrations, speaking groups, Turkic peoples · **What happens:** take, speak, spread, migrate · **To what, where:** place, much · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (main migrations, speaking groups, Turkic peoples), 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:45
# text = The main migrations of the Turkic peoples took place between the 5th and 11th centuries, during which Turkic-speaking groups spread across much of Central Asia.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	migrations	migration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Turkic	Turkic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	between	between	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	5th	5th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	11th	11th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	during	during	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
19	Turkic	Turkic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	amod	_	_
22	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
24	across	across	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	_
28	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the main migrations of the Turkic peoples | place |  |  | century |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | Turkic *compound* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **spread** | past | speaking groups |  |  | much of Central Asia |  | which *obl* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across much=Destination |
| 4 | **migrate** |  | the Turkic peoples |  |  |  |  |  | nom migration «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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