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title: He instead derives the name Čač from Late Proto-Turkic *t1iāt2(ă) "s… — Tashkent · tree and pragmatics
description: He instead derives the name Čač from Late Proto-Turkic *t1iāt2(ă) "stone", which he proposes to be seemingly another translation, besides the apparent Chinese translation 石 shí "stone", of *kaŋk- (whence Chinese transcription 康居 EHC *kʰɑŋ-kɨɑ > standard Chinese Kāngjū), which possibly meant "stone".
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# Tashkent, sentence 27

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From Wikipedia, [«Tashkent»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tashkent), 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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He instead derives the name Čač from Late Proto-Turkic \*t1iāt2(ă) "stone", which he proposes to be seemingly another translation, besides the apparent Chinese translation 石 shí "stone", of \*kaŋk- (whence Chinese transcription 康居 EHC \*kʰɑŋ-kɨɑ \> standard Chinese Kāngjū), which possibly meant "stone".

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**Who acts:** Čač, stone, kʰɑŋ kɨɑ · **What happens:** derive, propose, be, mean · **To what, where:** name, Late Proto Turkic, translation, stone

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tashkent». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Čač, stone, kʰɑŋ kɨɑ), 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:Tashkent:27
# text = He instead derives the name Čač from Late Proto-Turkic *t1iāt2(ă) "stone", which he proposes to be seemingly another translation, besides the apparent Chinese translation 石 shí "stone", of *kaŋk- (whence Chinese transcription 康居 EHC *kʰɑŋ-kɨɑ > standard Chinese Kāngjū), which possibly meant "stone".
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	derives	derive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	Čač	Čač	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	Late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	Proto	Proto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Turkic	Turkic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	t1iāt2	t1iāt2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	ă	ă	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	proposes	propose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
26	seemingly	seemingly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	apparent	apparent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
35	石	石	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	shí	shí	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	*	*	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	kaŋk	kaŋk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	_
45	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	47	advmod	_	_
47	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	transcription	transcription	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
49	康居	康居	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
50	EHC	EHC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	appos	_	_
51	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	kʰɑŋ	kʰɑŋ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	kɨɑ	kɨɑ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	appos	_	_
55	>	>	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	58	punct	_	_
56	standard	standard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
57	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	_
58	Kāngjū	Kāngjū	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	58	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
61	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	63	nsubj	_	_
62	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	_
63	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	acl	_	_
64	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	65	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	65	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **derive** | present | Čač *= čač* | the name |  | Late Proto Turkic |  | instead *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent name=Result from turkic=Material |
| 2 | **propose** | present | stone |  |  |  |  | Čač *= čač* *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | stone *not said here* | another translation and kaŋk and Chinese transcription |  |  |  | besides the apparent Chinese translation and shí; kaŋk and Chinese transcription *conj*; seemingly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **mean** | past | kʰɑŋ kɨɑ | stone |  |  |  | possibly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic |

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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, «Tashkent», 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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