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title: Michael E. O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution estimated that if A… — Afghanistan · tree and pragmatics
description: Michael E. O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution estimated that if Afghanistan generates about $10 billion per year from its mineral deposits, its gross national product would double and provide long-term funding for critical needs. Who acts: Michael E. O'Hanlon, Afghanistan, gross national product,
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# Afghanistan, sentence 418

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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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Michael E. O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution estimated that if Afghanistan generates about $10 billion per year from its mineral deposits, its gross national product would double and provide long-term funding for critical needs.

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**Who acts:** Michael E. O'Hanlon, Afghanistan, gross national product, Survey · **What happens:** estimate, generate, double, provide, deposit · **To what, where:** term funding

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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 (Michael E. O'Hanlon, Afghanistan, gross national product, Survey), 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:418
# text = Michael E. O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution estimated that if Afghanistan generates about $10 billion per year from its mineral deposits, its gross national product would double and provide long-term funding for critical needs.
1	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	E.	E.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	O'Hanlon	O'Hanlon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Brookings	Brookings	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Institution	Institution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	estimated	estimate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	Afghanistan	Afghanistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	generates	generate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	$	$	SYM	$	_	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	compound	_	_
16	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
17	per	per	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mineral	mineral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	deposits	deposit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
25	gross	gross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	product	product	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	double	double	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
32	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	funding	funding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	critical	critical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	needs	need	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **estimate** | past | Michael E. O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution |  |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Value |
| 2 | **generate** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Afghanistan |  |  |  | per year | from Survey's mineral deposits | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent $=Product from deposit=Patient |
| 3 | **double** | would | Survey's gross national product |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **provide** | infinitive | Survey's gross national product *not said here* | term funding |  |  |  | for critical needs | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition funding=Theme for need=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **deposit** |  | Survey |  |  |  |  |  | nom deposit «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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