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title: In the V-Dem Democracy Indices, Afghanistan ranks amongst the lowest… — Afghanistan · tree and pragmatics
description: In the V-Dem Democracy Indices, Afghanistan ranks amongst the lowest as a "closed autocracy," ranking at 176th and 177th out of 179 countries in electoral democracy and liberal democracy indices respectively. Who acts: Afghanistan. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Afghanistan» with its dependency tree and
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# Afghanistan, sentence 282

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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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In the V-Dem Democracy Indices, Afghanistan ranks amongst the lowest as a "closed autocracy," ranking at 176th and 177th out of 179 countries in electoral democracy and liberal democracy indices respectively.

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**Who acts:** Afghanistan · **What happens:** rank, close · **To what, where:** V Dem Democracy Indices, 176th

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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:282
# text = In the V-Dem Democracy Indices, Afghanistan ranks amongst the lowest as a "closed autocracy," ranking at 176th and 177th out of 179 countries in electoral democracy and liberal democracy indices respectively.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
3	V	v	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Dem	Dem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	Democracy	democracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Indices	index	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	Afghanistan	Afghanistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	ranks	rank	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	lowest	low	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	obl	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	autocracy	autocracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	ranking	rank	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	176th	176th	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	177th	177th	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	23	conj	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	179	179	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	electoral	electoral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	democracy	democracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	liberal	liberal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	democracy	democracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	indices	index	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
37	respectively	respectively	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rank** | present | Afghanistan |  |  | the V Dem Democracy Indices |  | amongst the lowest; as a closed autocracy | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as autocracy=Attribute |
| 2 | **close** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **rank** | gerund | Afghanistan *not said here* |  |  | 176th and 177th |  | out 179 countries in electoral democracy and liberal democracy indices | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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