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title: The population of Afghanistan was estimated at 35.7 million as of 20… — Afghanistan · tree and pragmatics
description: The population of Afghanistan was estimated at 35.7 million as of 2024 by the Afghanistan National Statistics and Information Authority, whereas the UN estimates over 42.0 million. Who acts: Afghanistan National Statistics, UN. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Afghanistan» with its dependency tree and pra
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# Afghanistan, sentence 488

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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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The population of Afghanistan was estimated at 35.7 million as of 2024 by the Afghanistan National Statistics and Information Authority, whereas the UN estimates over 42.0 million.

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**Who acts:** Afghanistan National Statistics, UN · **What happens:** estimate · **To what, where:** population, 35.7 million, 42.0 million

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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 (Afghanistan National Statistics, UN), 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:488
# text = The population of Afghanistan was estimated at 35.7 million as of 2024 by the Afghanistan National Statistics and Information Authority, whereas the UN estimates over 42.0 million.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Afghanistan	Afghanistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	estimated	estimate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	35.7	35.7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	compound	_	_
9	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	2024	2024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	Afghanistan	Afghanistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Statistics	Statistic	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Information	Information	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	Authority	Authority	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	UN	UN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	estimates	estimate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
26	over	over	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	42.0	42.0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	compound	_	_
28	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **estimate** | past · passive | the Afghanistan National Statistics and Information | the population of Afghanistan |  | 35.7 million |  | as 2024 | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent subject=Attribute at million=Value |
| 2 | **estimate** | present | the UN | 42.0 million |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent million=Value |

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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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