Afghanistan, sentence 209
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.
Human Rights Watch reported on 11 November 2021 that Afghanistan was facing widespread famine due to an economic and banking crisis.
Who acts: Afghanistan · What happens: report, face, bank · To what, where: Human Rights, 11, widespread famine, crisis
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 (Afghanistan), 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 | Human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Rights | amod |
| 2 | Rights | Right | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 reported | aux:pass |
| 4 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 11 | case |
| 6 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 reported | obl |
| 7 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 11 | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | 2021 | 2021 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 11 | flat |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 facing | mark |
| 10 | Afghanistan | Afghanistan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 facing | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 facing | aux |
| 12 | facing | face | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 reported | ccomp |
| 13 | widespread | widespread | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 famine | amod |
| 14 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 facing | obj |
| 15 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 12 facing | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 due | fixed |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 economic | det |
| 18 | economic | economic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 due | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 banking | cc |
| 20 | banking | bank | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 facing | conj |
| 21 | crisis | crisis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 banking | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reported | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | infinitive · passive | Human Rights | 11 November | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | face | past · progressive | Afghanistan | widespread famine | due property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent famine=Destination | |||
| 3 | bank | gerund | Afghanistan not said here | crisis | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crisis=Theme |
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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