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title: Although the defense was stiff, the Russians captured the city after… — Tashkent · tree and pragmatics
description: Although the defense was stiff, the Russians captured the city after two days of heavy fighting and the loss of only 25 dead as opposed to several thousand of the defenders (including Alimqul, the ruler of the Kokand Khanate). Who acts: Russians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tashkent» with its depende
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# Tashkent, sentence 97

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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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Although the defense was stiff, the Russians captured the city after two days of heavy fighting and the loss of only 25 dead as opposed to several thousand of the defenders (including Alimqul, the ruler of the Kokand Khanate).

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**Who acts:** Russians · **What happens:** be, capture, oppose, include · **To what, where:** city

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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 (Russians), 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:97
# text = Although the defense was stiff, the Russians captured the city after two days of heavy fighting and the loss of only 25 dead as opposed to several thousand of the defenders (including Alimqul, the ruler of the Kokand Khanate).
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	defense	defense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Russians	Russian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	captured	capture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	fighting	fighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	nmod	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	opposed	oppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	defenders	defender	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
33	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	including	include	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	case	_	_
35	Alimqul	Alimqul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	Kokand	Kokand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	Khanate	Khanate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | although the defense; stiff *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **capture** | past | the Russians | the city |  |  | day |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme |
| 3 | **oppose** | participle | the Russians *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to several thousand of the defenders | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **include** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «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, «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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