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title: Since the Taliban takeover, suicides among women have become more co… — Afghanistan · tree and pragmatics
description: Since the Taliban takeover, suicides among women have become more common, and the country could now be one of the few where the rate of suicide among women surpasses that among men. Who acts: suicides, country, rate. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Afghanistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Afghanistan, sentence 371

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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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Since the Taliban takeover, suicides among women have become more common, and the country could now be one of the few where the rate of suicide among women surpasses that among men.

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**Who acts:** suicides, country, rate · **What happens:** become, be, surpass · **To what, where:** one

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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 (suicides, country, rate), 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:371
# text = Since the Taliban takeover, suicides among women have become more common, and the country could now be one of the few where the rate of suicide among women surpasses that among men.
1	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Taliban	Taliban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	takeover	takeover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	suicides	suicide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
7	among	among	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	parataxis	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	suicide	suicide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	among	among	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
31	surpasses	surpass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	obj	_	_
33	among	among	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present · perfect | suicides among women |  |  |  | since the Taliban takeover | common *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | could | the country | one |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **surpass** | present | the rate of suicide among women |  |  |  |  | among men | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=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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