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title: The northeastern Hindu Kush mountain range, located in and around th… — Afghanistan · tree and pragmatics
description: The northeastern Hindu Kush mountain range, located in and around the Badakhshan Province of Afghanistan, is situated in a geologically active area where earthquakes occur almost every year. Who acts: earthquakes. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Afghanistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Afghanistan, sentence 251

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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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The northeastern Hindu Kush mountain range, located in and around the Badakhshan Province of Afghanistan, is situated in a geologically active area where earthquakes occur almost every year.

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**Who acts:** earthquakes · **What happens:** locate, situate, occur · **To what, where:** northeastern Hindu mountain range, Badakhshan Province, active area

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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 (earthquakes), 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:251
# text = The northeastern Hindu Kush mountain range, located in and around the Badakhshan Province of Afghanistan, is situated in a geologically active area where earthquakes occur almost every year.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	northeastern	northeastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	Hindu	Hindu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
4	Kush	Kush	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	range	range	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	around	around	ADP	IN	_	9	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Badakhshan	Badakhshan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Province	Province	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Afghanistan	Afghanistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	situated	situate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	geologically	geologically	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
26	earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	occur	occur	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **locate** | participle |  | the northeastern Hindu mountain range *not said here* |  | the Badakhshan Province of Afghanistan |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **situate** | present · passive |  | the northeastern Hindu mountain range |  | a active area |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in area=Destination |
| 3 | **occur** | present | earthquakes |  |  |  | year |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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