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title: Municipal bus service began in Ashgabat in 1925 with five routes, an… — Turkmenistan · tree and pragmatics
description: Municipal bus service began in Ashgabat in 1925 with five routes, and taxicab service began in 1938 with five vehicles. Who acts: Municipal bus service, taxicab service. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Turkmenistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Turkmenistan, sentence 295

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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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Municipal bus service began in Ashgabat in 1925 with five routes, and taxicab service began in 1938 with five vehicles.

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**Who acts:** Municipal bus service, taxicab service · **What happens:** begin · **To what, where:** Ashgabat, 1938

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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 (Municipal bus service, taxicab service), 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:295
# text = Municipal bus service began in Ashgabat in 1925 with five routes, and taxicab service began in 1938 with five vehicles.
1	Municipal	municipal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Ashgabat	Ashgabat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1925	1925	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	routes	route	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	taxicab	taxicab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1938	1938	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	vehicles	vehicle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Municipal bus service |  |  | Ashgabat |  | in 1925; with five routes | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with route=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **begin** | past | taxicab service |  |  | 1938 |  | with five vehicles | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with vehicle=Subeventuality |

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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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