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title: However, by 6 September, the Taliban had taken control of most of Pa… — Afghanistan · tree and pragmatics
description: However, by 6 September, the Taliban had taken control of most of Panjshir Province, with resistance fighters retreating to the mountains. Who acts: resistance fighters. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Afghanistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Afghanistan, sentence 197

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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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However, by 6 September, the Taliban had taken control of most of Panjshir Province, with resistance fighters retreating to the mountains.

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**Who acts:** resistance fighters · **What happens:** take, retreat · **To what, where:** Taliban, mountains

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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 (resistance fighters), 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:197
# text = However, by 6 September, the Taliban had taken control of most of Panjshir Province, with resistance fighters retreating to the mountains.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
5	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Taliban	Taliban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Panjshir	Panjshir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Province	Province	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	resistance	resistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	fighters	fighter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
21	retreating	retreat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Taliban |  |  |  | by 6  September; control of most of Panjshir Province *obj*; resistance fighters *conj*; however *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme control=Destination |
| 2 | **retreat** | gerund | resistance fighters *not said here* |  |  | the mountains |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial\_Location |

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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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