Afghanistan, sentence 463
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.
By 2001 following years of civil war, telecommunications was virtually a non-existent sector, but by 2016 it had grown to a $2 billion industry, with 22 million mobile phone subscribers and 5 million internet users.
Who acts: telecommunications, sector · What happens: follow, be, grow · To what, where: non-existent sector
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 (telecommunications, sector), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 2 | 2001 | 2001 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 3 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 years | amod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sector | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 war | case |
| 6 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 war | amod |
| 7 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 years | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 years | punct |
| 9 | telecommunications | telecommunication | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sector | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sector | cop |
| 11 | virtually | virtually | ADV | _ | 14 sector | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sector | det |
| 13 | non-existent | non-existent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sector | amod |
| 14 | sector | sector | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 grown | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 grown | cc |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 2016 | case |
| 18 | 2016 | 2016 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 grown | obl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 grown | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 grown | aux |
| 21 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 sector | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 industry | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 industry | det |
| 24 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 27 industry | compound |
| 25 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 billion | compound |
| 26 | billion | billion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 $ | nummod |
| 27 | industry | industry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 grown | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 subscribers | punct |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 subscribers | case |
| 30 | 22 | 22 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 million | compound |
| 31 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 subscribers | nummod |
| 32 | mobile | mobile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 subscribers | amod |
| 33 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 subscribers | compound |
| 34 | subscribers | subscriber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 grown | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 users | cc |
| 36 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 37 million | compound |
| 37 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 users | nummod |
| 38 | internet | internet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 users | compound |
| 39 | users | user | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 subscribers | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 sector | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | telecommunications | a non-existent sector | year | virtually property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | grow | past · perfect | sector | by 2016; to a $ industry result; with million mobile phone subscribers and million internet users | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient by 2016=Extent to industry=Result |
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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