--- title: On 20 September 2021, United Nations Secretary-General António Guter… — Afghanistan · tree and pragmatics description: On 20 September 2021, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres received a letter from acting minister of foreign affairs Amir Khan Muttaqi to formally claim Afghanistan's seat as a member state for their official spokesman in Doha, Suhail Shaheen. Who acts: António, letter. 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On 20 September 2021, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres received a letter from acting minister of foreign affairs Amir Khan Muttaqi to formally claim Afghanistan's seat as a member state for their official spokesman in Doha, Suhail Shaheen. **Who acts:** António, letter · **What happens:** receive, act, claim · **To what, where:** letter, 20, minister, seat 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 (António, letter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:205 # text = On 20 September 2021, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres received a letter from acting minister of foreign affairs Amir Khan Muttaqi to formally claim Afghanistan's seat as a member state for their official spokesman in Doha, Suhail Shaheen. 1 On on ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 3 September September PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:unmarked _ _ 4 2021 2021 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 United United PROPN NNP _ 7 compound _ _ 7 Nations Nation PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 8 compound _ _ 8 Secretary Secretary PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 General General PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:desc _ _ 11 António António PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 Guterres Guterres PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ _ 13 received receive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 from from SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 acting act VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 acl _ _ 18 minister minister NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 foreign foreign ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 affairs affair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 22 Amir Amir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 23 Khan Khan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 flat _ _ 24 Muttaqi Muttaqi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 flat _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 26 formally formally ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 claim claim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 28 Afghanistan Afghanistan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 29 's 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 as as ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 member member NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 spokesman spokesman NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 Doha Doha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 Suhail Suhail PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 43 Shaheen Shaheen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **receive** | past | António Secretary General | a letter | | 20 2021 September | | | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent letter=Theme on 20=Location | | 2 | **act** | gerund | a letter *not said here* | minister of foreign affairs | | | | | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent minister=Eventuality | | 3 | **claim** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | a letter *not said here* | Afghanistan's seat | | | | as a member state; for States's official spokesman in Doha and Suhail; formally *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent seat=Topic | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 204](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Afghanistan/204/) - next →: [sentence 206](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Afghanistan/206/) - ↑ back to [Afghanistan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Afghanistan/)