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title: Another uncle, Shah Mahmud Khan, became prime minister in 1946 and e… — Afghanistan · tree and pragmatics
description: Another uncle, Shah Mahmud Khan, became prime minister in 1946 and experimented with allowing greater political freedom. Who acts: uncle. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Afghanistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Afghanistan, sentence 132

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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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Another uncle, Shah Mahmud Khan, became prime minister in 1946 and experimented with allowing greater political freedom.

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**Who acts:** uncle · **What happens:** become, experiment, allow · **To what, where:** prime minister, 1946, greater political freedom

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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 (uncle), 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:132
# text = Another uncle, Shah Mahmud Khan, became prime minister in 1946 and experimented with allowing greater political freedom.
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Shah	Shah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	Mahmud	Mahmud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	prime	prime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1946	1946	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	experimented	experiment	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	allowing	allow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
18	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | another uncle | prime minister |  |  |  | in 1946 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1946=Result |
| 2 | **experiment** | past | another uncle *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **allow** | gerund | another uncle *not said here* | greater political freedom |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Beneficiary |

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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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