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title: Following the effective collapse of the Islamic Republic of Afghanis… — Afghanistan · tree and pragmatics
description: Following the effective collapse of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan during the 2021 Taliban offensive, the Taliban declared the country an Islamic Emirate. Who acts: Taliban, Islamic Republic. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Afghanistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Afghanistan, sentence 280

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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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Following the effective collapse of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan during the 2021 Taliban offensive, the Taliban declared the country an Islamic Emirate.

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**Who acts:** Taliban, Islamic Republic · **What happens:** follow, declare, collapse · **To what, where:** effective collapse, country

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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 (Taliban, Islamic Republic), 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:280
# text = Following the effective collapse of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan during the 2021 Taliban offensive, the Taliban declared the country an Islamic Emirate.
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	effective	effective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	collapse	collapse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Afghanistan	Afghanistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	during	during	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	2021	2021	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nsubj	_	_
14	Taliban	Taliban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	offensive	offensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Taliban	Taliban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Emirate	Emirate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund | the Taliban *not said here* | the effective collapse of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan |  |  | during the Taliban offensive |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collapse=Theme |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the Taliban | the country |  |  |  | a Islamic Emirate *obl:unmarked* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Attribute |
| 3 | **collapse** |  | the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan |  |  |  |  |  | nom collapse «state intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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