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title: According to Charles Kurzman, Soviet historians sought to construct… — Kazakhstan · tree and pragmatics
description: According to Charles Kurzman, Soviet historians sought to construct "safe" histories for the newly created republics. Who acts: Soviet historians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kazakhstan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kazakhstan, sentence 86

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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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According to Charles Kurzman, Soviet historians sought to construct "safe" histories for the newly created republics.

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**Who acts:** Soviet historians · **What happens:** accord, seek, construct, create · **To what, where:** safe histories

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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 (Soviet historians), 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:86
# text = According to Charles Kurzman, Soviet historians sought to construct "safe" histories for the newly created republics.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	Kurzman	Kurzman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	historians	historian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	construct	construct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	histories	history	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	created	create	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	republics	republic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **seek** | past | Soviet historians |  |  |  |  | accord Charles | tree rules |
| 3 | **construct** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Soviet historians *not said here* | safe histories |  |  |  | for the created republics | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent history=Result for republic=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **create** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | newly *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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