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title: Road links in the north played a large part in a growing cotton and… — Afghanistan · tree and pragmatics
description: Road links in the north played a large part in a growing cotton and textile industry. Who acts: Road, north. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Afghanistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Afghanistan, sentence 129

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From Wikipedia, [«Afghanistan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Road links in the north played a large part in a growing cotton and textile industry.

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**Who acts:** Road, north · **What happens:** link, play, grow · **To what, where:** large part, growing cotton

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Afghanistan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Road, north), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Afghanistan:129
# text = Road links in the north played a large part in a growing cotton and textile industry.
1	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	links	link	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	textile	textile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	industry	industry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **link** | present | Road |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | past | the north | a large part |  | a growing cotton and textile industry |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Afghanistan», 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.

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