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title: In March 2023, however, cannabis production was banned by a decree f… — Afghanistan · tree and pragmatics
description: In March 2023, however, cannabis production was banned by a decree from Hibatullah Akhundzada. Who acts: decree. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Afghanistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Afghanistan, sentence 405

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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 March 2023, however, cannabis production was banned by a decree from Hibatullah Akhundzada.

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**Who acts:** decree · **What happens:** ban · **To what, where:** cannabis production

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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 (decree), 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:405
# text = In March 2023, however, cannabis production was banned by a decree from Hibatullah Akhundzada.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
3	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	cannabis	cannabis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	production	production	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	banned	ban	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	decree	decree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Hibatullah	Hibatullah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	Akhundzada	Akhundzada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ban** | past · passive | a decree from Hibatullah | cannabis production |  |  | march | however *property* | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=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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