Kabul, sentence 182
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 Soviets turned the city of Kabul into their command centre during the Soviet–Afghan War, and while fighting was mostly taking place in the countryside, Kabul was widely disturbed.
Who acts: Soviets · What happens: turn, fight, be, disturb · To what, where: city, command centre, countryside, Kabul
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: who acts (Soviets), 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 | 2 Soviets | det |
| 2 | Soviets | Soviet | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 city | det |
| 5 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Kabul | case |
| 7 | Kabul | Kabul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 city | nmod |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 centre | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 centre | nmod:poss |
| 10 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 centre | compound |
| 11 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 12 | during | during | ADP | _ | 17 War | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 War | det |
| 14 | Soviet | Soviet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 War | compound |
| 15 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 War | punct |
| 16 | Afghan | Afghan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 War | amod |
| 17 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 taking | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 taking | cc |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 fighting | mark |
| 21 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 taking | advcl |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 taking | cop |
| 23 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 24 taking | advmod |
| 24 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 turned | parataxis |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 taking | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 countryside | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 countryside | det |
| 28 | countryside | countryside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 taking | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 disturbed | punct |
| 30 | Kabul | Kabul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 disturbed | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 disturbed | aux:pass |
| 32 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 33 disturbed | advmod |
| 33 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 taking | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the Soviets | the city of Kabul | Soviets's command centre | during the Soviet Afghan War | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent city=Theme into centre=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | fight | gerund | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | the countryside | place obj; mostly, take property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | disturb | past · passive | Kabul | widely property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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