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Kabul, sentence 167

From Wikipedia, «Kabul», 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 city was known for its street sales of hashish and became a major attraction for western hippies.

What happens: know, become · To what, where: city, major attraction

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kabul». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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

detnsubj:passaux:passcasenmod:posscompoundoblcasenmodccconjdetamodxcompcaseamodnmodpunctrootTheDETcityNOUNwasAUXknownVERBforADPitsPRONstreetNOUNsalesNOUNofADPhashishNOUNandCCONJbecameVERBaDETmajorADJattractionNOUNforADPwesternADJhippiesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 citydet
2citycityNOUNNumber=Sing4 knownnsubj:pass
3wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 knownaux:pass
4knownknowVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
5forforADP_8 salescase
6itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 salesnmod:poss
7streetstreetNOUNNumber=Sing8 salescompound
8salessaleNOUNNumber=Plur4 knownobl
9ofofADP_10 hashishcase
10hashishhashishNOUNNumber=Sing8 salesnmod
11andandCCONJ_12 becamecc
12becamebecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 knownconj
13aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art15 attractiondet
14majormajorADJDegree=Pos15 attractionamod
15attractionattractionNOUNNumber=Sing12 becamexcomp
16forforADP_18 hippiescase
17westernwesternADJDegree=Pos18 hippiesamod
18hippieshippieNOUNNumber=Plur15 attractionnmod
19..PUNCT_4 knownpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1knowpast · passivethe cityfor city's street sales of hashishvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
2becomepasta major attraction for western hippiesvn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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, «Kabul», 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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