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title: Despite these measures, tensions persisted throughout his tenure. — Kyrgyzstan · tree and pragmatics
description: Despite these measures, tensions persisted throughout his tenure. Who acts: tensions. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kyrgyzstan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kyrgyzstan, sentence 97

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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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Despite these measures, tensions persisted throughout his tenure.

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**Who acts:** tensions · **What happens:** persist · **To what, where:** tenure

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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 (tensions), 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:97
# text = Despite these measures, tensions persisted throughout his tenure.
1	Despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	measures	measure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	tensions	tension	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	persisted	persist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	tenure	tenure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **persist** | past | tensions |  |  | Bakiyev's tenure |  | despite this measures | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme throughout tenure=Location |

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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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