Kabul, sentence 4
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 native population of Kabul primarily speaks Persian, locally referred to as Persian Dari, using regional Dari dialects with a distinctive Kabuli accent.
Who acts: native population · What happens: speak, refer, use · To what, where: Persian, regional Dari dialects · 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 (native population), 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 | 3 population | det |
| 2 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 population | amod |
| 3 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 speaks | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Kabul | case |
| 5 | Kabul | Kabul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 population | nmod |
| 6 | primarily | primarily | ADV | _ | 7 speaks | advmod |
| 7 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Persian | Persian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 speaks | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 referred | punct |
| 10 | locally | locally | ADV | _ | 11 referred | advmod |
| 11 | referred | refer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 speaks | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 referred | obl |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 Persian | case |
| 14 | Persian | Persian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 referred | obl:agent |
| 15 | Dari | Dari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Persian | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 using | punct |
| 17 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 speaks | advcl |
| 18 | regional | regional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dialects | amod |
| 19 | Dari | Dari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 dialects | compound |
| 20 | dialects | dialect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 using | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 accent | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 accent | det |
| 23 | distinctive | distinctive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 accent | amod |
| 24 | Kabuli | Kabuli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 accent | compound |
| 25 | accent | accent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 using | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 speaks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | the native population of Kabul | Persian | primarily property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | refer | participle | the native population of Kabul not said here | Persian obl:agent; locally property | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | use | gerund | the native population of Kabul not said here | regional Dari dialects | with a distinctive Kabuli accent | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dialect=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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