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title: In the villages, families typically occupy mudbrick houses, or compo… — Afghanistan · tree and pragmatics
description: In the villages, families typically occupy mudbrick houses, or compounds with mudbrick or stone walled houses. Who acts: families. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Afghanistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Afghanistan, sentence 583

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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 the villages, families typically occupy mudbrick houses, or compounds with mudbrick or stone walled houses.

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**Who acts:** families · **What happens:** occupy, wall · **To what, where:** mudbrick houses, villages

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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 (families), 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:583
# text = In the villages, families typically occupy mudbrick houses, or compounds with mudbrick or stone walled houses.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	typically	typically	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	occupy	occupy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	mudbrick	mudbrick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	compounds	compound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	mudbrick	mudbrick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	walled	wall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occupy** | present | families | mudbrick houses or compounds with walled houses  mudbrick or stone |  | the villages |  | typically *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus house=Experiencer |
| 2 | **wall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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