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title: In Afghanistan, Nowruz is typically celebrated with music and dance,… — Afghanistan · tree and pragmatics
description: In Afghanistan, Nowruz is typically celebrated with music and dance, as well as holding buzkashi tournaments. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Afghanistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Afghanistan, sentence 657

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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 Afghanistan, Nowruz is typically celebrated with music and dance, as well as holding buzkashi tournaments.

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**What happens:** celebrate, hold · **To what, where:** Nowruz, Afghanistan, buzkashi tournaments

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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: 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:657
# text = In Afghanistan, Nowruz is typically celebrated with music and dance, as well as holding buzkashi tournaments.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Afghanistan	Afghanistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Nowruz	Nowruz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	typically	typically	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	16	cc	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	fixed	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
16	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
17	buzkashi	buzkashi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	tournaments	tournament	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	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 | **celebrate** | present · passive |  | Nowruz |  | Afghanistan |  | with music and dance; typically *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund |  | buzkashi tournaments |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tournament=Theme |

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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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