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title: As a predominantly Muslim country, Islamic events and festivals such… — Afghanistan · tree and pragmatics
description: As a predominantly Muslim country, Islamic events and festivals such as Ramadan, Eid al-Fitr and Ashura are widely celebrated annually in Afghanistan. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Afghanistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Afghanistan, sentence 659

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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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As a predominantly Muslim country, Islamic events and festivals such as Ramadan, Eid al-Fitr and Ashura are widely celebrated annually in Afghanistan.

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**What happens:** celebrate · **To what, where:** Islamic events, Afghanistan

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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:659
# text = As a predominantly Muslim country, Islamic events and festivals such as Ramadan, Eid al-Fitr and Ashura are widely celebrated annually in Afghanistan.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	predominantly	predominantly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	Muslim	Muslim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	festivals	festival	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	13	case	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	Ramadan	Ramadan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Eid	Eid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Fitr	Fitr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Ashura	Ashura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	widely	widely	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
24	annually	annually	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Afghanistan	Afghanistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **celebrate** | present · passive |  | Islamic events and festivals such Ramadan and Eid and Ashura |  | Afghanistan |  | as a Muslim country; annually, widely *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as country=Attribute |

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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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