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title: Public research is largely confined to institutes, with universities… — Kazakhstan · tree and pragmatics
description: Public research is largely confined to institutes, with universities making only a token contribution. Who acts: universities. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kazakhstan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kazakhstan, sentence 575

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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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Public research is largely confined to institutes, with universities making only a token contribution.

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**Who acts:** universities · **What happens:** confine, make · **To what, where:** Public research, institutes, token contribution

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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 (universities), 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:575
# text = Public research is largely confined to institutes, with universities making only a token contribution.
1	Public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	research	research	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	confined	confine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	institutes	institute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	universities	university	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	token	token	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	contribution	contribution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confine** | present · passive |  | Public research |  | institutes |  | with universities; largely *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to institute=Destination |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | universities *not said here* | a token contribution |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset contribution=Product |

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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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