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title: During Queen Tamar's reign, Shota Rustaveli worked in Tbilisi while… — Tbilisi · tree and pragmatics
description: During Queen Tamar's reign, Shota Rustaveli worked in Tbilisi while writing his legendary epic poem The Knight in the Panther's Skin. Who acts: Shota. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tbilisi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tbilisi, sentence 45

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From Wikipedia, [«Tbilisi»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tbilisi), 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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During Queen Tamar's reign, Shota Rustaveli worked in Tbilisi while writing his legendary epic poem The Knight in the Panther's Skin.

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**Who acts:** Shota · **What happens:** work, write · **To what, where:** legendary epic poem

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tbilisi». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shota), 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:Tbilisi:45
# text = During Queen Tamar's reign, Shota Rustaveli worked in Tbilisi while writing his legendary epic poem The Knight in the Panther's Skin.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	Tamar	Tamar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	reign	reign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Shota	Shota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Rustaveli	Rustaveli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Tbilisi	Tbilisi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	writing	write	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
15	legendary	legendary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	epic	epic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Knight	Knight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Panther	Panther	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	Skin	Skin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | past | Shota |  |  |  | during Tamar  Queen's reign | in Tbilisi | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in tbilisi=Theme |
| 2 | **write** | gerund | Shota *not said here* | Tbilisi's legendary epic poem |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Theme |

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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, «Tbilisi», 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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