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title: The Ashgabat earthquake of 1948 killed over 110,000 people, amountin… — Turkmenistan · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ashgabat earthquake of 1948 killed over 110,000 people, amounting to two-thirds of the city's population. Who acts: Ashgabat earthquake. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Turkmenistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Turkmenistan, sentence 44

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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 Ashgabat earthquake of 1948 killed over 110,000 people, amounting to two-thirds of the city's population.

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**Who acts:** Ashgabat earthquake · **What happens:** kill, amount · **To what, where:** 110,000 people

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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 (Ashgabat earthquake), 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:44
# text = The Ashgabat earthquake of 1948 killed over 110,000 people, amounting to two-thirds of the city's population.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Ashgabat	Ashgabat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1948	1948	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
6	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	over	over	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	110,000	110,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	amounting	amount	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	thirds	third	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past | the Ashgabat earthquake of 1948 | 110,000 people |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 2 | **amount** | gerund | the Ashgabat earthquake of 1948 *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to two thirds of the city's population | vn register-54.1-1 «NP V PP.value»: agent=Theme to third=Value |

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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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