Afghanistan, sentence 396
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.
Since the Taliban's takeover of the country in August 2021, the United States has frozen about $9 billion in assets belonging to the Afghan central bank, blocking the Taliban from accessing billions of dollars held in US bank accounts.
Who acts: United States, assets · What happens: freeze, belong, block, access, hold · To what, where: assets, Taliban, billions, US bank accounts
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 (United States, assets), 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 | Since | since | ADP | _ | 5 takeover | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Taliban | det |
| 3 | Taliban | Taliban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 takeover | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Taliban | case |
| 5 | takeover | takeover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 frozen | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 country | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 country | det |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 takeover | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 August | case |
| 10 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 country | nmod |
| 11 | 2021 | 2021 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 August | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 takeover | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 States | det |
| 14 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 States | amod |
| 15 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 frozen | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 frozen | aux |
| 17 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 19 $ | advmod |
| 19 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 17 frozen | obl |
| 20 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 billion | compound |
| 21 | billion | billion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 $ | nummod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 assets | case |
| 23 | assets | asset | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 frozen | obl |
| 24 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 assets | acl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 bank | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bank | det |
| 27 | Afghan | Afghan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 bank | amod |
| 28 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 bank | amod |
| 29 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 belonging | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 blocking | punct |
| 31 | blocking | block | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 belonging | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Taliban | det |
| 33 | Taliban | Taliban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 blocking | obj |
| 34 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 35 accessing | mark |
| 35 | accessing | access | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 blocking | advcl |
| 36 | billions | billion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 accessing | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 dollars | case |
| 38 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 billions | nmod |
| 39 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 billions | acl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 accounts | case |
| 41 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 accounts | compound |
| 42 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 accounts | compound |
| 43 | accounts | account | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 held | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 frozen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | present · perfect | the United States | assets | since the Taliban's takeover of the country in August | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | belong | gerund | assets not said here | to the Afghan central bank | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | block | gerund | assets not said here | the Taliban | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer taliban=Theme | ||||
| 4 | access | gerund | assets not said here | billions of dollars | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hold | participle | billions of dollars not said here | US bank accounts | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in account=Location |
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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