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title: Since the Taliban's takeover of the country in August 2021, the Unit… — Afghanistan · tree and pragmatics
description: Since the Taliban's takeover of the country in August 2021, the United States has frozen about $9 billion in assets belonging to the Afghan central bank, blocking the Taliban from accessing billions of dollars held in US bank accounts. Who acts: United States, assets. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Afgh
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# Afghanistan, sentence 396

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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's takeover of the country in August 2021, the United States has frozen about $9 billion in assets belonging to the Afghan central bank, blocking the Taliban from accessing billions of dollars held in US bank accounts.

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**Who acts:** United States, assets · **What happens:** freeze, belong, block, access, hold · **To what, where:** assets, Taliban, billions, US bank accounts

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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 (United States, assets), 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:396
# text = Since the Taliban's takeover of the country in August 2021, the United States has frozen about $9 billion in assets belonging to the Afghan central bank, blocking the Taliban from accessing billions of dollars held in US bank accounts.
1	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Taliban	Taliban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	takeover	takeover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	2021	2021	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
18	about	about	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	$	$	SYM	$	_	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	compound	_	_
21	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	assets	asset	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
24	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	Afghan	Afghan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	blocking	block	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Taliban	Taliban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	accessing	access	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
36	billions	billion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
39	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
42	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	accounts	account	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **freeze** | present · perfect | the United States |  |  | assets | since the Taliban's takeover of the country in August |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **belong** | gerund | assets *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the Afghan central bank | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **block** | gerund | assets *not said here* | the Taliban |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer taliban=Theme |
| 4 | **access** | gerund | assets *not said here* | billions of dollars |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hold** | participle |  | billions of dollars *not said here* |  | US bank accounts |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in account=Location |

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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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