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title: In September 2023, the Taliban signed mining contracts worth $6.5 bi… — Afghanistan · tree and pragmatics
description: In September 2023, the Taliban signed mining contracts worth $6.5 billion, with extractions based on gold, iron, lead, and zinc in the provinces of Herat, Ghor, Logar, and Takhar. Who acts: Taliban. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Afghanistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Afghanistan, sentence 434

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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 September 2023, the Taliban signed mining contracts worth $6.5 billion, with extractions based on gold, iron, lead, and zinc in the provinces of Herat, Ghor, Logar, and Takhar.

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**Who acts:** Taliban · **What happens:** sign, base · **To what, where:** mining contracts, extractions, gold

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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 (Taliban), 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:434
# text = In September 2023, the Taliban signed mining contracts worth $6.5 billion, with extractions based on gold, iron, lead, and zinc in the provinces of Herat, Ghor, Logar, and Takhar.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Taliban	Taliban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	signed	sign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	mining	mining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	contracts	contract	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
11	$	$	SYM	$	_	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	6.5	6.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	compound	_	_
13	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	extractions	extraction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	appos	_	_
17	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	zinc	zinc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	provinces	province	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Herat	Herat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	Ghor	Ghor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	Logar	Logar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	Takhar	Takhar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **sign** | past | the Taliban | mining contracts |  |  | september | zinc in the provinces of Herat and Ghor and Logar *parataxis*; Takhar *parataxis*; worth *property* | vn instr\_communication-37.4.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent contract=Recipient $=Topic |
| 2 | **base** | participle |  | extractions *not said here* |  | gold and iron and lead |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on gold=Source |

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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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