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title: Afghans have long been accustomed to watching Indian Bollywood films… — Afghanistan · tree and pragmatics
description: Afghans have long been accustomed to watching Indian Bollywood films and listening to its filmi songs. Who acts: media. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Afghanistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Afghanistan, sentence 643

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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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Afghans have long been accustomed to watching Indian Bollywood films and listening to its filmi songs.

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**Who acts:** media · **What happens:** accustom, watch, listen, sing · **To what, where:** Afghans, Indian Bollywood films

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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 (media), 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:643
# text = Afghans have long been accustomed to watching Indian Bollywood films and listening to its filmi songs.
1	Afghans	afghan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	Bollywood	Bollywood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	filmi	filmi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accustom** | present · perfect · passive |  | Afghans |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **watch** | gerund |  | Indian Bollywood films |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Theme |
| 3 | **listen** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to media's filmi songs | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to song=Theme |
| 4 | **sing** |  | media |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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