Kabul, sentence 34
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.
This "supposition seems likely" as the Afghan historian Mir Ghulam Mohammad Ghobar (1898–1978) wrote that in the Avesta (sacred book of Zoroastrianism), Kabul was known as Vaekereta, whereas the Greeks of antiquity referred to it as Ortospana ("High Place"), which corresponds to the Sanskrit word Urddhastana, which was applied to Kabul.
Who acts: supposition, Afghan historian, High Place · What happens: seem, write, know, refer, correspond, apply · To what, where: Kabul, Avesta, antiquity, historian, Sanskrit word · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (supposition, Afghan historian, High Place), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 supposition | det |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 supposition | punct |
| 3 | supposition | supposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seems | nsubj |
| 4 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 seems | xcomp |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 seems | punct |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 historian | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 historian | det |
| 9 | Afghan | Afghan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 historian | amod |
| 10 | historian | historian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wrote | nsubj |
| 11 | Mir | Mir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 historian | appos |
| 12 | Ghulam | Ghulam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Mir | flat |
| 13 | Mohammad | Mohammad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Mir | flat |
| 14 | Ghobar | Ghobar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Mohammad | flat |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 1898 | punct |
| 16 | 1898 | 1898 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 Mir | list |
| 17 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 18 1978 | case |
| 18 | 1978 | 1978 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 1898 | nmod |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 1898 | punct |
| 20 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seems | parataxis |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 known | mark |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Avesta | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Avesta | det |
| 24 | Avesta | Avesta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 known | obl |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 book | punct |
| 26 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 book | amod |
| 27 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Avesta | appos |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Zoroastrianism | case |
| 29 | Zoroastrianism | Zoroastrianism | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 book | nmod |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 book | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Avesta | punct |
| 32 | Kabul | Kabul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 known | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 known | aux:pass |
| 34 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 wrote | ccomp |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 Vaekereta | case |
| 36 | Vaekereta | Vaekereta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 known | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Greeks | punct |
| 38 | whereas | whereas | SCONJ | _ | 40 Greeks | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Greeks | det |
| 40 | Greeks | Greek | PROPN | Number=Plur | 34 known | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 antiquity | case |
| 42 | antiquity | antiquity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 Greeks | nmod |
| 43 | referred | refer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 antiquity | acl |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 it | case |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 referred | obl |
| 46 | as | as | ADP | _ | 47 Ortospana | case |
| 47 | Ortospana | Ortospana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 referred | obl |
| 48 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 51 Place | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 51 Place | punct |
| 50 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 Place | amod |
| 51 | Place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 Ortospana | appos |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 51 Place | punct |
| 53 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 51 Place | punct |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 corresponds | punct |
| 55 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 56 corresponds | nsubj |
| 56 | corresponds | correspond | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 Place | parataxis |
| 57 | to | to | ADP | _ | 60 word | case |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 60 word | det |
| 59 | Sanskrit | Sanskrit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 60 word | compound |
| 60 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 corresponds | obl |
| 61 | Urddhastana | Urddhastana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 60 word | appos |
| 62 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 65 applied | punct |
| 63 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 65 applied | nsubj:pass |
| 64 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 65 applied | aux:pass |
| 65 | applied | apply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 60 word | acl |
| 66 | to | to | ADP | _ | 67 Kabul | case |
| 67 | Kabul | Kabul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 65 applied | obl |
| 68 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 47 Ortospana | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem in a quote | present | this supposition | likely property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | write | past | the Afghan historian | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | know | past · passive | Kabul | the Avesta | as Vaekereta; whereas the Greeks of antiquity | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as vaekereta=Attribute | |||
| 4 | refer | participle | antiquity not said here | historian | as Ortospana | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to it=Co-Theme | |||
| 5 | correspond | present | High Place | to the Sanskrit word | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | apply | past · passive | the Sanskrit word | Kabul | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kabul/34/