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title: Turkmenistan started producing cotton in the Murghab Valley followin… — Turkmenistan · tree and pragmatics
description: Turkmenistan started producing cotton in the Murghab Valley following conquest of Merv by the Russian Empire in 1884. Who acts: Turkmenistan. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Turkmenistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Turkmenistan, sentence 278

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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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Turkmenistan started producing cotton in the Murghab Valley following conquest of Merv by the Russian Empire in 1884.

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**Who acts:** Turkmenistan · **What happens:** start, produce, follow · **To what, where:** 1884, cotton, Murghab Valley

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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 (Turkmenistan), 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:278
# text = Turkmenistan started producing cotton in the Murghab Valley following conquest of Merv by the Russian Empire in 1884.
1	Turkmenistan	Turkmenistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	producing	produce	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
4	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Murghab	Murghab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Valley	Valley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	conquest	conquest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Merv	Merv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1884	1884	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | Turkmenistan |  |  | 1884 |  | by the Russian Empire; following conquest of Merv *parataxis* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **produce** | gerund |  | cotton |  | the Murghab Valley |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cotton=Result |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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, «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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