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title: The illegal adoption of abandoned babies in Turkmenistan is blamed o… — Turkmenistan · tree and pragmatics
description: The illegal adoption of abandoned babies in Turkmenistan is blamed on rampant corruption in the agencies involved in the legal adoption process which pushes some parents to a "cheaper and faster" option. Who acts: legal adoption process. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Turkmenistan» with its dependency t
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# Turkmenistan, sentence 187

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From Wikipedia, [«Turkmenistan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkmenistan), 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 illegal adoption of abandoned babies in Turkmenistan is blamed on rampant corruption in the agencies involved in the legal adoption process which pushes some parents to a "cheaper and faster" option.

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**Who acts:** legal adoption process · **What happens:** abandon, blame, push, adopt · **To what, where:** illegal adoption, rampant corruption, parents, cheaper option, abandoned babies

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Turkmenistan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legal adoption process), 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:Turkmenistan:187
# text = The illegal adoption of abandoned babies in Turkmenistan is blamed on rampant corruption in the agencies involved in the legal adoption process which pushes some parents to a "cheaper and faster" option.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	illegal	illegal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	adoption	adoption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	abandoned	abandon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Turkmenistan	Turkmenistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	blamed	blame	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	rampant	rampant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	corruption	corruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	agencies	agency	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
17	involved	involved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	legal	legal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	adoption	adoption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	process	process	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	34	amod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
34	option	option	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abandon** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **blame** | present · passive |  | the illegal adoption of abandoned babies in Turkmenistan |  | rampant corruption |  | in the agencies | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **push** | present | the legal adoption process | some parents |  | a cheaper option |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent parent=Theme to option=Trajectory |
| 4 | **adopt** |  |  | abandoned babies in Turkmenistan |  |  |  |  | nom adoption «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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, «Turkmenistan», 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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