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title: Child marriage is prevalent; in 2017, Human Rights Watch described t… — Afghanistan · tree and pragmatics
description: Child marriage is prevalent; in 2017, Human Rights Watch described the legal age for marriage of girls as being 16, or 15 with the consent of the father or a judge. Who acts: marriage prevalent. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Afghanistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Afghanistan, sentence 581

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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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Child marriage is prevalent; in 2017, Human Rights Watch described the legal age for marriage of girls as being 16, or 15 with the consent of the father or a judge.

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**Who acts:** marriage prevalent · **What happens:** be, watch, describe, marry, consent · **To what, where:** marriage prevalent, legal age, girls, father

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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 (marriage prevalent), 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:581
# text = Child marriage is prevalent; in 2017, Human Rights Watch described the legal age for marriage of girls as being 16, or 15 with the consent of the father or a judge.
1	Child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	prevalent	prevalent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Rights	Right	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	Watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
12	described	describe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	legal	legal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
22	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	consent	consent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | marriage prevalent |  |  |  | 2017 *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **watch** | infinitive | marriage prevalent *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **describe** | past | marriage prevalent | the legal age |  |  |  | for marriage of girls; 15 with the consent of the father or a judge *obl*; Human Rights *nsubj* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent age=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | as 16 | tree rules |
| 5 | **marry** |  |  | girls |  |  |  |  | nom marriage «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **consent** |  |  | the father or a judge |  |  |  |  | nom consent «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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