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title: Foreigners flocked to Kabul as the nation's tourism industry expanded. — Kabul · tree and pragmatics
description: Foreigners flocked to Kabul as the nation's tourism industry expanded. Who acts: Foreigners, tourism industry. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kabul» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kabul, sentence 156

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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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Foreigners flocked to Kabul as the nation's tourism industry expanded.

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**Who acts:** Foreigners, tourism industry · **What happens:** flock, expand · **To what, where:** Kabul

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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 (Foreigners, tourism industry), 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:156
# text = Foreigners flocked to Kabul as the nation's tourism industry expanded.
1	Foreigners	foreigner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flocked	flock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Kabul	Kabul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	tourism	tourism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	industry	industry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	expanded	expand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flock** | past | Foreigners |  | Kabul |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **expand** | past | the nation's tourism industry |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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