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title: In June 1990, ethnic tensions between Uzbeks and Kyrgyz surfaced in… — Kyrgyzstan · tree and pragmatics
description: In June 1990, ethnic tensions between Uzbeks and Kyrgyz surfaced in the Osh Region (southern Kyrgyzstan), where Uzbeks form a minority of the population. Who acts: ethnic tensions, Uzbeks. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kyrgyzstan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kyrgyzstan, sentence 64

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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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In June 1990, ethnic tensions between Uzbeks and Kyrgyz surfaced in the Osh Region (southern Kyrgyzstan), where Uzbeks form a minority of the population.

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**Who acts:** ethnic tensions, Uzbeks · **What happens:** surface, form · **To what, where:** Osh Region, minority

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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 (ethnic tensions, Uzbeks), 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:64
# text = In June 1990, ethnic tensions between Uzbeks and Kyrgyz surfaced in the Osh Region (southern Kyrgyzstan), where Uzbeks form a minority of the population.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
3	1990	1990	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tensions	tension	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Uzbeks	uzbek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Kyrgyz	Kyrgyz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	surfaced	surface	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Osh	Osh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Region	Region	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Kyrgyzstan	Kyrgyzstan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
22	Uzbeks	uzbek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	minority	minority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surface** | past | ethnic tensions between Uzbeks and Kyrgyz |  |  | the Osh Region | june |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **form** | present | Uzbeks | a minority of the population |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location minority=Theme |

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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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