Afghanistan, sentence 205
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.
On 20 September 2021, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres received a letter from acting minister of foreign affairs Amir Khan Muttaqi to formally claim Afghanistan's seat as a member state for their official spokesman in Doha, Suhail Shaheen.
Who acts: António, letter · What happens: receive, act, claim · To what, where: letter, 20, minister, seat
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 (António, letter), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 20 | case |
| 2 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 received | obl |
| 3 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 2021 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 2021 | 2021 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 20 | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 20 | punct |
| 6 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 7 Nations | compound |
| 7 | Nations | Nation | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 Secretary | compound |
| 8 | Secretary | Secretary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 General | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Secretary | punct |
| 10 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 António | nmod:desc |
| 11 | António | António | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 received | nsubj |
| 12 | Guterres | Guterres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 António | flat |
| 13 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 letter | det |
| 15 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 received | obj |
| 16 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 17 acting | mark |
| 17 | acting | act | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 letter | acl |
| 18 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 acting | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 affairs | case |
| 20 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 affairs | amod |
| 21 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 minister | nmod |
| 22 | Amir | Amir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 affairs | appos |
| 23 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Amir | flat |
| 24 | Muttaqi | Muttaqi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Amir | flat |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 claim | mark |
| 26 | formally | formally | ADV | _ | 27 claim | advmod |
| 27 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 acting | advcl |
| 28 | Afghanistan | Afghanistan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 seat | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 Afghanistan | case |
| 30 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 claim | obj |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 state | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 state | det |
| 33 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 state | compound |
| 34 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 claim | obl |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 spokesman | case |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 spokesman | nmod:poss |
| 37 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 spokesman | amod |
| 38 | spokesman | spokesman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 claim | obl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 Doha | case |
| 40 | Doha | Doha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 spokesman | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 Suhail | punct |
| 42 | Suhail | Suhail | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Doha | conj |
| 43 | Shaheen | Shaheen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Suhail | flat |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | António Secretary General | a letter | 20 2021 September | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent letter=Theme on 20=Location | |||
| 2 | act | gerund | a letter not said here | minister of foreign affairs | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent minister=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | claim speech: other | to-infinitive | a letter not said here | Afghanistan's seat | as a member state; for States's official spokesman in Doha and Suhail; formally property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent seat=Topic |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Afghanistan», 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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