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title: Built as a planned city along the Margalla Hills in the 1960s and es… — Islamabad · tree and pragmatics
description: Built as a planned city along the Margalla Hills in the 1960s and established in 1967, Islamabad replaced Karachi as Pakistan's national capital. Who acts: Islamabad. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Islamabad» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Islamabad, sentence 3

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From Wikipedia, [«Islamabad»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamabad), 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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Built as a planned city along the Margalla Hills in the 1960s and established in 1967, Islamabad replaced Karachi as Pakistan's national capital.

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**Who acts:** Islamabad · **What happens:** build, plan, establish, replace · **To what, where:** 1967, Karachi

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Islamabad». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Islamabad), 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:Islamabad:3
# text = Built as a planned city along the Margalla Hills in the 1960s and established in 1967, Islamabad replaced Karachi as Pakistan's national capital.
1	Built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	along	along	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Margalla	Margalla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Hills	Hill	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	1960s	1960s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	1	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1967	1967	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
18	Islamabad	Islamabad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	replaced	replace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	Karachi	Karachi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	Pakistan	Pakistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | participle | Islamabad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a planned city along the Margalla Hills; in the 1960s | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1960s=Attribute |
| 2 | **plan** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **establish** | participle | Islamabad *not said here* |  |  | 1967 |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **replace** | past | Islamabad | Karachi |  |  |  | as Pakistan's national capital | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme karachi=Co-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, «Islamabad», 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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