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title: This period of instability began in 1973 when King Zahir Shah was ov… — Afghanistan · tree and pragmatics
description: This period of instability began in 1973 when King Zahir Shah was overthrown by his cousin Mohammad Daoud Khan, ending the monarchy and resulting in the establishment of the Republic of Afghanistan. Who acts: period, cousin. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Afghanistan» with its dependency tree and pragma
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# Afghanistan, sentence 15

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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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This period of instability began in 1973 when King Zahir Shah was overthrown by his cousin Mohammad Daoud Khan, ending the monarchy and resulting in the establishment of the Republic of Afghanistan.

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**Who acts:** period, cousin · **What happens:** begin, overthrow, end, result, establish · **To what, where:** 1973, King, monarchy, establishment, Republic

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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 (period, cousin), 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:15
# text = This period of instability began in 1973 when King Zahir Shah was overthrown by his cousin Mohammad Daoud Khan, ending the monarchy and resulting in the establishment of the Republic of Afghanistan.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	instability	instability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1973	1973	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	Zahir	Zahir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	Shah	Shah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	overthrown	overthrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	Mohammad	Mohammad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
18	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	ending	end	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	advcl:relcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	monarchy	monarchy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	resulting	result	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	establishment	establishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Afghanistan	Afghanistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | this period of instability |  |  | 1973 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **overthrow** | past · passive | King's cousin | King |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **end** | gerund | King's cousin *not said here* | the monarchy |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality monarchy=Eventuality |
| 4 | **result** | gerund | King's cousin *not said here* |  |  | the establishment of the Republic of Afghanistan |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in establishment=Location |
| 5 | **establish** |  |  | the Republic of Afghanistan |  |  |  |  | nom establishment «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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