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title: Analysts and Western media have compared his leadership style to tha… — Uzbekistan · tree and pragmatics
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# Uzbekistan, sentence 159

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From Wikipedia, [«Uzbekistan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzbekistan), 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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Analysts and Western media have compared his leadership style to that of Deng Xiaoping and Mikhail Gorbachev, describing his tenure as a potential "Uzbek Spring".

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**What happens:** compare, describe · **To what, where:** Analysts, tenure

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Uzbekistan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:Uzbekistan:159
# text = Analysts and Western media have compared his leadership style to that of Deng Xiaoping and Mikhail Gorbachev, describing his tenure as a potential "Uzbek Spring".
1	Analysts	analyst	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	media	media	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	leadership	leadership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Deng	Deng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	Xiaoping	Xiaoping	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Mikhail	Mikhail	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	Gorbachev	Gorbachev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	describing	describe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	tenure	tenure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	potential	potential	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Uzbek	Uzbek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Spring	Spring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compare** | present · perfect · passive |  | Analysts and Western media |  |  |  | to that of Deng and Mikhail; Mirziyoyev's leadership style *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **describe** | gerund |  | Mirziyoyev's tenure |  |  |  | as a potential | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent tenure=Theme as potential=Attribute |

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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, «Uzbekistan», 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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