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title: Turkmen men wear traditional telpek or "mekan telpek" hats, which ar… — Turkmenistan · tree and pragmatics
description: Turkmen men wear traditional telpek or "mekan telpek" hats, which are large black or white sheepskin hats. Who acts: Turkmen men, telpek hats. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Turkmenistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Turkmenistan, sentence 408

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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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Turkmen men wear traditional telpek or "mekan telpek" hats, which are large black or white sheepskin hats.

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**Who acts:** Turkmen men, telpek hats · **What happens:** wear, be · **To what, where:** telpek hats, large black sheepskin hats

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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 (Turkmen men, telpek hats), 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:408
# text = Turkmen men wear traditional telpek or "mekan telpek" hats, which are large black or white sheepskin hats.
1	Turkmen	turkmen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	compound	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	telpek	telpek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	mekan	mekan	X	FW	_	9	compound	_	_
9	telpek	telpek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	hats	hat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
15	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
16	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	sheepskin	sheepskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	hats	hat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | present | Turkmen men | telpek hats |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hat=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | telpek hats | large black sheepskin hats |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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