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title: In 1978 the conflict became a violent one when a communist revolutio… — Afghanistan · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1978 the conflict became a violent one when a communist revolution overthrew and assassinated Daoud Khan, establishing the socialist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. Who acts: conflict, communist revolution. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Afghanistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Afghanistan, sentence 17

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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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In 1978 the conflict became a violent one when a communist revolution overthrew and assassinated Daoud Khan, establishing the socialist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

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**Who acts:** conflict, communist revolution · **What happens:** become, overthrow, assassinate, establish · **To what, where:** violent one, 1978, Daoud, socialist

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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 (conflict, communist revolution), 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:17
# text = In 1978 the conflict became a violent one when a communist revolution overthrew and assassinated Daoud Khan, establishing the socialist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1978	1978	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	communist	communist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	revolution	revolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	overthrew	overthrow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	assassinated	assassinate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	establishing	establish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	socialist	socialist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	Democratic	Democratic	PROPN	NNP	_	23	compound	_	_
23	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Afghanistan	Afghanistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the conflict | a violent one |  |  |  | in 1978 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1978=Result |
| 2 | **overthrow** | past | a communist revolution |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **assassinate** | past | the conflict *not said here* | Daoud |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daoud=Patient |
| 4 | **establish** | gerund | the conflict *not said here* | the socialist |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent socialist=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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