Afghanistan, sentence 17
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.
In 1978 the conflict became a violent one when a communist revolution overthrew and assassinated Daoud Khan, establishing the socialist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
Who acts: conflict, communist revolution · What happens: become, overthrow, assassinate, establish · To what, where: violent one, 1978, Daoud, socialist
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 (conflict, communist revolution), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1978 | case |
| 2 | 1978 | 1978 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 became | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 conflict | det |
| 4 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 became | nsubj |
| 5 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 7 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 one | amod |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 became | xcomp |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 overthrew | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 revolution | det |
| 11 | communist | communist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 revolution | amod |
| 12 | revolution | revolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 overthrew | nsubj |
| 13 | overthrew | overthrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 became | advcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 assassinated | cc |
| 15 | assassinated | assassinate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 became | conj |
| 16 | Daoud | Daoud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 assassinated | obj |
| 17 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Daoud | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 establishing | punct |
| 19 | establishing | establish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 assassinated | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 socialist | det |
| 21 | socialist | socialist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 establishing | obj |
| 22 | Democratic | Democratic | PROPN | _ | 23 Republic | compound |
| 23 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 socialist | appos |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Afghanistan | case |
| 25 | Afghanistan | Afghanistan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Republic | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the conflict | a violent one | in 1978 result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1978=Result | |||
| 2 | overthrow | past | a communist revolution | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | assassinate | past | the conflict not said here | Daoud | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daoud=Patient | ||||
| 4 | establish | gerund | the conflict not said here | the socialist | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent socialist=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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