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title: Human Rights Watch reported on 11 November 2021 that Afghanistan was… — Afghanistan · tree and pragmatics
description: Human Rights Watch reported on 11 November 2021 that Afghanistan was facing widespread famine due to an economic and banking crisis. Who acts: Afghanistan. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Afghanistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Afghanistan, sentence 209

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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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Human Rights Watch reported on 11 November 2021 that Afghanistan was facing widespread famine due to an economic and banking crisis.

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**Who acts:** Afghanistan · **What happens:** report, face, bank · **To what, where:** Human Rights, 11, widespread famine, crisis

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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 (Afghanistan), 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:209
# text = Human Rights Watch reported on 11 November 2021 that Afghanistan was facing widespread famine due to an economic and banking crisis.
1	Human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Rights	Right	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	Watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
7	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
8	2021	2021	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	Afghanistan	Afghanistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	facing	face	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
13	widespread	widespread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	famine	famine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	12	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	banking	bank	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
21	crisis	crisis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **report** | infinitive · passive |  | Human Rights |  | 11  November |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **face** | past · progressive | Afghanistan | widespread famine |  |  |  | due *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent famine=Destination |
| 3 | **bank** | gerund | Afghanistan *not said here* | crisis |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crisis=Theme |

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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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