Kabul, sentence 270
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.
Houses in Kabul during that time were generally made up of walled compounds, built around courtyards and having narrow passageways to places.
What happens: make up, wall, build, have · To what, where: Houses, walled compounds, courtyards, narrow passageways
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Kabul | case |
| 3 | Kabul | Kabul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Houses | nmod |
| 4 | during | during | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Houses | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | aux:pass |
| 8 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 9 made | advmod |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 made | compound:prt |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 compounds | case |
| 12 | walled | wall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 compounds | amod |
| 13 | compounds | compound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 made | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 built | punct |
| 15 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 compounds | acl |
| 16 | around | around | ADP | _ | 17 courtyards | case |
| 17 | courtyards | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 built | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 having | cc |
| 19 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 made | conj |
| 20 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 passageways | amod |
| 21 | passageways | passageway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 having | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 places | case |
| 23 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 having | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past · passive | Houses in Kabul during that time | of walled compounds; generally property | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | wall | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | build | participle | walled compounds not said here | courtyards | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | have | gerund | narrow passageways | to places | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passageway=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.
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