Afghanistan, sentence 15
From Wikipedia, «Afghanistan», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
This period of instability began in 1973 when King Zahir Shah was overthrown by his cousin Mohammad Daoud Khan, ending the monarchy and resulting in the establishment of the Republic of Afghanistan.
Who acts: period, cousin · What happens: begin, overthrow, end, result, establish · To what, where: 1973, King, monarchy, establishment, Republic
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Afghanistan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (period, cousin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 period | det |
| 2 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 instability | case |
| 4 | instability | instability | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 period | nmod |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1973 | case |
| 7 | 1973 | 1973 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 began | obl |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 overthrown | advmod |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 overthrown | nsubj |
| 10 | Zahir | Zahir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 King | flat |
| 11 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 King | flat |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 overthrown | aux:pass |
| 13 | overthrown | overthrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 began | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 cousin | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 16 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 overthrown | obl |
| 17 | Mohammad | Mohammad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 cousin | appos |
| 18 | Daoud | Daoud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Mohammad | flat |
| 19 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Mohammad | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ending | punct |
| 21 | ending | end | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 overthrown | advcl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 monarchy | det |
| 23 | monarchy | monarchy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ending | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 resulting | cc |
| 25 | resulting | result | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 ending | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 establishment | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 establishment | det |
| 28 | establishment | establishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 resulting | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Republic | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Republic | det |
| 31 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 establishment | nmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Afghanistan | case |
| 33 | Afghanistan | Afghanistan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Republic | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | this period of instability | 1973 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | overthrow | past · passive | King's cousin | King | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | end | gerund | King's cousin not said here | the monarchy | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality monarchy=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | result | gerund | King's cousin not said here | the establishment of the Republic of Afghanistan | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in establishment=Location | ||||
| 5 | establish | the Republic of Afghanistan | nom establishment «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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