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title: The sudden death of Niyazov at the end of 2006 left a complete vacuu… — Turkmenistan · tree and pragmatics
description: The sudden death of Niyazov at the end of 2006 left a complete vacuum of power, as his cult of personality, comparable to the one of eternal president Kim Il Sung of North Korea, had precluded the naming of a successor. Who acts: sudden death, Niyazov. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Turkmenistan» with i
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# Turkmenistan, sentence 65

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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 sudden death of Niyazov at the end of 2006 left a complete vacuum of power, as his cult of personality, comparable to the one of eternal president Kim Il Sung of North Korea, had precluded the naming of a successor.

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**Who acts:** sudden death, Niyazov · **What happens:** leave, preclude, die, name · **To what, where:** complete vacuum, naming, end, successor

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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 (sudden death, Niyazov), 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:65
# text = The sudden death of Niyazov at the end of 2006 left a complete vacuum of power, as his cult of personality, comparable to the one of eternal president Kim Il Sung of North Korea, had precluded the naming of a successor.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Niyazov	Niyazov	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	2006	2006	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	_
11	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	vacuum	vacuum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	cult	cult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	personality	personality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	comparable	comparable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	eternal	eternal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	Kim	Kim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Il	Il	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Sung	Sung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	precluded	preclude	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	parataxis	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	naming	naming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	successor	successor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | the sudden death of Niyazov at the end of 2006 | a complete vacuum of power |  |  |  | as death's cult of personality | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vacuum=Theme |
| 2 | **preclude** | past · perfect |  | the naming of a successor |  |  |  |  | vn exclude-107.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent naming=Theme |
| 3 | **die** |  | Niyazov |  |  |  | at the end of 2006 |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent at=place |
| 4 | **name** |  |  | a successor |  |  |  |  | nom naming «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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