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title: Kyz Kuumai – a man chases a girl to win a kiss from her, while she g… — Kyrgyzstan · tree and pragmatics
description: Kyz Kuumai – a man chases a girl to win a kiss from her, while she gallops away; if he is not successful she may in turn chase him and attempt to beat him with her "kamchi" (horsewhip) Who acts: Kyz, Jumby. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kyrgyzstan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kyrgyzstan, sentence 490

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From Wikipedia, [«Kyrgyzstan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrgyzstan), 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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Kyz Kuumai – a man chases a girl to win a kiss from her, while she gallops away; if he is not successful she may in turn chase him and attempt to beat him with her "kamchi" (horsewhip)

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**Who acts:** Kyz, Jumby · **What happens:** chase, win, gallop away, not be, attempt, beat · **To what, where:** girl, kiss, Jumby

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kyrgyzstan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kyz, Jumby), 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:Kyrgyzstan:490
# text = Kyz Kuumai – a man chases a girl to win a kiss from her, while she gallops away; if he is not successful she may in turn chase him and attempt to beat him with her "kamchi" (horsewhip)
1	Kyz	Kyz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Kuumai	Kuumai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	–	-	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	chases	chase	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	kiss	kiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	gallops	gallop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	advcl	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	ccomp	_	_
30	chase	chase	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	attempt	attempt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	kamchi	kamchi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
42	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	horsewhip	horsewhip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	43	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase** | present | Kyz | a girl |  |  |  | a man *nsubj* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme |
| 2 | **win** | to-infinitive | Kyz *not said here* | a kiss |  |  |  | from Kyz | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent kiss=Theme from she=Source |
| 3 | **gallop away** | present | Kyz |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Jumby |  |  |  |  | turn  Kyz *ccomp*; successful *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **chase** | present | Kyz *not said here* | Jumby |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 6 | **attempt** | infinitive | Kyz *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **beat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Kyz *not said here* | Jumby |  |  |  | with Kyz's kamchi | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with kamchi=Instrument |

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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, «Kyrgyzstan», 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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