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title: The celebration traces back over 6,000 years, with historical ties t… — Tajikistan · tree and pragmatics
description: The celebration traces back over 6,000 years, with historical ties to the Silk Road. Who acts: celebration. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tajikistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tajikistan, sentence 423

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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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The celebration traces back over 6,000 years, with historical ties to the Silk Road.

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**Who acts:** celebration · **What happens:** trace back

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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 (celebration), 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:423
# text = The celebration traces back over 6,000 years, with historical ties to the Silk Road.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	celebration	celebration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	traces	trace	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	6,000	6000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ties	tie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Silk	Silk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trace back** | present | the celebration |  |  |  | year | with historical ties to the Silk Road | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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