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title: Family is the mainstay of Afghan society and families are often head… — Afghanistan · tree and pragmatics
description: Family is the mainstay of Afghan society and families are often headed by a patriarch. Who acts: Family, patriarch. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Afghanistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Afghanistan, sentence 570

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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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Family is the mainstay of Afghan society and families are often headed by a patriarch.

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**Who acts:** Family, patriarch · **What happens:** be, head · **To what, where:** mainstay

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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 (Family, patriarch), 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:570
# text = Family is the mainstay of Afghan society and families are often headed by a patriarch.
1	Family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mainstay	mainstay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Afghan	Afghan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	society	society	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	often	often	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	headed	head	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	patriarch	patriarch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Family | the mainstay |  |  |  | of Afghan society and families | tree rules |
| 2 | **head** | present · passive | a patriarch | the mainstay *not said here* |  |  |  | often *property* | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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