Afghanistan, sentence 418
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Michael E. O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution estimated that if Afghanistan generates about $10 billion per year from its mineral deposits, its gross national product would double and provide long-term funding for critical needs.
Who acts: Michael E. O'Hanlon, Afghanistan, gross national product, Survey · What happens: estimate, generate, double, provide, deposit · To what, where: term funding
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 (Michael E. O'Hanlon, Afghanistan, gross national product, Survey), 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 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 O'Hanlon | compound |
| 2 | E. | E. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 O'Hanlon | compound |
| 3 | O'Hanlon | O'Hanlon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 estimated | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Institution | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Institution | det |
| 6 | Brookings | Brookings | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Institution | compound |
| 7 | Institution | Institution | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 O'Hanlon | nmod |
| 8 | estimated | estimate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 generates | mark |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 generates | mark |
| 11 | Afghanistan | Afghanistan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 generates | nsubj |
| 12 | generates | generate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 estimated | ccomp |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 $ | advmod |
| 14 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 12 generates | obj |
| 15 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 billion | compound |
| 16 | billion | billion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 $ | nummod |
| 17 | per | per | ADP | _ | 18 year | case |
| 18 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 $ | nmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 deposits | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 deposits | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mineral | mineral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 deposits | compound |
| 22 | deposits | deposit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 $ | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 double | punct |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 product | nmod:poss |
| 25 | gross | gross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 product | amod |
| 26 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 product | amod |
| 27 | product | product | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 double | nsubj |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 double | aux |
| 29 | double | double | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 $ | parataxis |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 provide | cc |
| 31 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 double | conj |
| 32 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 term | amod |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 long | punct |
| 34 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 funding | compound |
| 35 | funding | funding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 provide | obj |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 needs | case |
| 37 | critical | critical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 needs | amod |
| 38 | needs | need | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 funding | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 estimated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | estimate | past | Michael E. O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Value | |||||
| 2 | generate a condition, not said to happen | present | Afghanistan | per year | from Survey's mineral deposits | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent $=Product from deposit=Patient | |||
| 3 | double | would | Survey's gross national product | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | provide | infinitive | Survey's gross national product not said here | term funding | for critical needs | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition funding=Theme for need=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | deposit | Survey | nom deposit «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
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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