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title: It acted as a military base for Shah Jahan's central Asian campaigns… — Kabul · tree and pragmatics
description: It acted as a military base for Shah Jahan's central Asian campaigns in Balkh and Badakhshan. Who acts: centre, Shah Jahan. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kabul» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kabul, sentence 108

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From Wikipedia, [«Kabul»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabul), 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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It acted as a military base for Shah Jahan's central Asian campaigns in Balkh and Badakhshan.

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**Who acts:** centre, Shah Jahan · **What happens:** act, campaign · **To what, where:** Balkh

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kabul». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (centre, Shah Jahan), 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:Kabul:108
# text = It acted as a military base for Shah Jahan's central Asian campaigns in Balkh and Badakhshan.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	acted	act	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
8	Shah	Shah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Jahan	Jahan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Asian	Asian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	campaigns	campaign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Balkh	Balkh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Badakhshan	Badakhshan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **act** | past | centre |  |  |  |  | as a military base for Shah Jahan's central Asian campaigns in Balkh and Badakhshan | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as base=Attribute |
| 2 | **campaign** |  | Shah Jahan |  |  | Balkh and Badakhshan |  |  | nom campaign «event intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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, «Kabul», 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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