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title: Russia backed the pro-government faction and deployed troops from th… — Tajikistan · tree and pragmatics
description: Russia backed the pro-government faction and deployed troops from the Commonwealth of Independent States to guard the Tajikistan-Afghan border. Who acts: Russia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tajikistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tajikistan, sentence 146

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From Wikipedia, [«Tajikistan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajikistan), 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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Russia backed the pro-government faction and deployed troops from the Commonwealth of Independent States to guard the Tajikistan-Afghan border.

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**Who acts:** Russia · **What happens:** back, deploy, guard · **To what, where:** pro-government faction, troops, Commonwealth, Tajikistan Afghan border

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tajikistan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Russia), 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:Tajikistan:146
# text = Russia backed the pro-government faction and deployed troops from the Commonwealth of Independent States to guard the Tajikistan-Afghan border.
1	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	backed	back	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	pro-government	pro-government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	faction	faction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	deployed	deploy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	7	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Commonwealth	Commonwealth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Independent	Independent	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	guard	guard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	Tajikistan	Tajikistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Afghan	Afghan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **back** | past | Russia | the pro-government faction |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faction=Agent |
| 2 | **deploy** | past | Russia *not said here* | troops |  | the Commonwealth of Independent States |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **guard** | to-infinitive | Russia *not said here* | the Tajikistan Afghan border |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent border=Beneficiary |

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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, «Tajikistan», 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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