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title: Despite criticism, this seems to be a sign of improving relationship… — Uzbekistan · tree and pragmatics
description: Despite criticism, this seems to be a sign of improving relationships between Uzbekistan and the West. Who acts: this, sign. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uzbekistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uzbekistan, sentence 186

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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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Despite criticism, this seems to be a sign of improving relationships between Uzbekistan and the West.

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**Who acts:** this, sign · **What happens:** seem, be, improve · **To what, where:** sign, relationships

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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: who acts (this, sign), 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:186
# text = Despite criticism, this seems to be a sign of improving relationships between Uzbekistan and the West.
1	Despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	criticism	criticism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
5	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	improving	improve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	relationships	relationship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	between	between	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | this |  |  |  |  | despite criticism | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | this *not said here* | a sign |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **improve** | gerund | a sign *not said here* | relationships |  |  |  | between Uzbekistan and the West | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent relationship=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, «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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