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title: Although Batu did not distinguish himself as an outstanding military… — Kazakhstan · tree and pragmatics
description: Although Batu did not distinguish himself as an outstanding military commander, he proved to be a capable administrator and politician. Who acts: Batu. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kazakhstan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kazakhstan, sentence 91

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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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Although Batu did not distinguish himself as an outstanding military commander, he proved to be a capable administrator and politician.

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**Who acts:** Batu · **What happens:** not distinguish, prove, be · **To what, where:** Batu, capable administrator

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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 (Batu), 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:91
# text = Although Batu did not distinguish himself as an outstanding military commander, he proved to be a capable administrator and politician.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	Batu	Batu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	outstanding	outstanding	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	commander	commander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	proved	prove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	capable	capable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	administrator	administrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	politician	politician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **distinguish** | past · do-support | Batu | Batu |  |  |  | as a outstanding military commander | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute himself=Theme |
| 2 | **prove** | past | Batu |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | Batu *not said here* | a capable administrator and politician |  |  |  | politician *conj* | tree rules |

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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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