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title: Turkmenistan contains seven terrestrial ecoregions: Alai-Western Tia… — Turkmenistan · tree and pragmatics
description: Turkmenistan contains seven terrestrial ecoregions: Alai-Western Tian Shan steppe, Kopet Dag woodlands and forest steppe, Badghyz and Karabil semi-desert, Caspian lowland desert, Central Asian riparian woodlands, Central Asian southern desert, and Kopet Dag semi-desert. Who acts: Turkmenistan, Alai.
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# Turkmenistan, sentence 99

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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 contains seven terrestrial ecoregions: Alai-Western Tian Shan steppe, Kopet Dag woodlands and forest steppe, Badghyz and Karabil semi-desert, Caspian lowland desert, Central Asian riparian woodlands, Central Asian southern desert, and Kopet Dag semi-desert.

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**Who acts:** Turkmenistan, Alai · **What happens:** contain, steppe · **To what, where:** seven terrestrial ecoregions

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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, Alai), 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:99
# text = Turkmenistan contains seven terrestrial ecoregions: Alai-Western Tian Shan steppe, Kopet Dag woodlands and forest steppe, Badghyz and Karabil semi-desert, Caspian lowland desert, Central Asian riparian woodlands, Central Asian southern desert, and Kopet Dag semi-desert.
1	Turkmenistan	turkmenistan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	terrestrial	terrestrial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ecoregions	ecoregion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
7	Alai	Alai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	Tian	tian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	Shan	Shan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	steppe	steppe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	Kopet	Kopet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	Dag	Dag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	woodlands	woodland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	steppe	steppe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Badghyz	Badghyz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Karabil	Karabil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	semi-desert	semi-desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	Caspian	Caspian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	lowland	lowland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	Central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
31	Asian	Asian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	riparian	riparian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	woodlands	woodland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	Central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
36	Asian	Asian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	Kopet	Kopet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
42	Dag	Dag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	flat	_	_
43	semi-desert	semi-desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | present | Turkmenistan | seven terrestrial ecoregions |  |  |  | Kopet semi-desert *conj* | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ecoregion=Theme |
| 2 | **steppe** |  | Alai |  |  |  |  | Kopet woodlands  Badghyz  semi-desert and Karabil and Caspian lowland desert and forest steppe *conj*; Central Asian riparian woodlands *conj*; Central Asian southern desert *parataxis* | 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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