Afghanistan, sentence 36
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.
The name Afghanistan (Afghānistān, land of the Afghans / Pashtuns, afāghina, sing. afghān) can be traced to the early eighth/fourteenth century, when it designated the easternmost part of the Kartid realm.
Who acts: land · What happens: trace, designate · To what, where: name Afghanistan, easternmost part
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 (land), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Afghanistan | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Afghanistan | compound |
| 3 | Afghanistan | Afghanistan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 traced | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 Afghānistān | punct |
| 5 | Afghānistān | Afghānistān | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Afghanistan | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 land | punct |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Afghanistan | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Afghans | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Afghans | det |
| 10 | Afghans | Afghan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 land | nmod |
| 11 | / | / | PUNCT | _ | 12 Pashtuns | punct |
| 12 | Pashtuns | Pashtun | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 Afghans | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 afāghina | punct |
| 14 | afāghina | afāghina | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Afghanistan | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sing | punct |
| 16 | sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Afghanistan | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 afghān | punct |
| 18 | afghān | afghān | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sing | appos |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 afghān | punct |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 traced | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 traced | aux:pass |
| 22 | traced | trace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 century | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 century | det |
| 25 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 century | amod |
| 26 | eighth/fourteenth | eighth/fourteenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 century | amod |
| 27 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 traced | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 designated | punct |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 designated | advmod |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 designated | nsubj |
| 31 | designated | designate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 traced | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 part | det |
| 33 | easternmost | easternmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 part | amod |
| 34 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 designated | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 realm | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 realm | det |
| 37 | Kartid | Kartid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 realm | compound |
| 38 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 part | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 traced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trace | can · passive | the name Afghanistan and Afghānistān and afāghina and sing | century | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | designate | past | land | the easternmost part of the Kartid realm | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=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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