Kabul, sentence 204
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.
Its geographic location in a narrow valley made it an easy target from rockets fired by militias who based themselves in the surrounding mountains.
Who acts: geographic location, militias · What happens: make, fire, base, surround · To what, where: city, rockets, targets, surrounding mountains
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 (geographic location, militias), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 location | nmod:poss |
| 2 | geographic | geographic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 location | amod |
| 3 | location | location | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 valley | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 valley | det |
| 6 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 valley | amod |
| 7 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 location | nmod |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | obj |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 target | det |
| 11 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 target | amod |
| 12 | target | target | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 rockets | case |
| 14 | rockets | rocket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 made | obl |
| 15 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 rockets | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 militias | case |
| 17 | militias | militia | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fired | obl |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 based | nsubj |
| 19 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 militias | acl |
| 20 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 based | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 mountains | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 mountains | det |
| 23 | surrounding | surround | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 mountains | amod |
| 24 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 based | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | city's geographic location in a narrow valley | city | rockets | a easy target obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP PP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary target=Product from rocket=Material | ||
| 2 | fire | participle | rockets not said here | by militias | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent by militia=Destination | ||||
| 3 | base | participle | militias | targets = target | the surrounding mountains | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | |||
| 4 | surround | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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