---
title: [Before the 1978 Marxist coup d'etat] Kabul was a pleasant city [..] — Kabul · tree and pragmatics
description: [Before the 1978 Marxist coup d'etat] Kabul was a pleasant city [..] Who acts: Kabul. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kabul» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kabul/163/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Kabul](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kabul/) / 163

# Kabul, sentence 163

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
\[Before the 1978 Marxist coup d'etat\] Kabul was a pleasant city \[..\]

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Kabul · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** pleasant city

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Kabul), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:163
# text = [Before the 1978 Marxist coup d'etat] Kabul was a pleasant city [..]
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	1978	1978	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	Marxist	marxist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	coup	coup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	d'etat	d'etat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
9	Kabul	Kabul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
14	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	..	..	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Kabul | a pleasant city |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 162](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kabul/162/)
- next →: [sentence 164](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kabul/164/)
- ↑ back to [Kabul](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kabul/)