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title: After centuries of turmoil, over a thousand years later, in the 8th… — Turkmenistan · tree and pragmatics
description: After centuries of turmoil, over a thousand years later, in the 8th century AD, Turkic-speaking Oghuz tribes moved from Mongolia into present-day Central Asia. Who acts: 8th century AD. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Turkmenistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Turkmenistan, sentence 22

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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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After centuries of turmoil, over a thousand years later, in the 8th century AD, Turkic-speaking Oghuz tribes moved from Mongolia into present-day Central Asia.

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**Who acts:** 8th century AD · **What happens:** speak, move · **To what, where:** Oghuz tribes, Mongolia · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (8th century AD), 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:22
# text = After centuries of turmoil, over a thousand years later, in the 8th century AD, Turkic-speaking Oghuz tribes moved from Mongolia into present-day Central Asia.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	turmoil	turmoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	8th	8th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
15	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	AD	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Turkic	Turkic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
21	Oghuz	Oghuz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Mongolia	Mongolia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	_
31	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | the 8th century AD *not said here* | Oghuz tribes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **move** | past | the 8th century AD |  |  | Mongolia | century; day | late *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from mongolia=Trajectory |

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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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