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title: The Soviets turned the city of Kabul into their command centre durin… — Kabul · tree and pragmatics
description: The Soviets turned the city of Kabul into their command centre during the Soviet–Afghan War, and while fighting was mostly taking place in the countryside, Kabul was widely disturbed. Who acts: Soviets. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kabul» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kabul, sentence 182

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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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The Soviets turned the city of Kabul into their command centre during the Soviet–Afghan War, and while fighting was mostly taking place in the countryside, Kabul was widely disturbed.

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**Who acts:** Soviets · **What happens:** turn, fight, be, disturb · **To what, where:** city, command centre, countryside, 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 (Soviets), 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:182
# text = The Soviets turned the city of Kabul into their command centre during the Soviet–Afghan War, and while fighting was mostly taking place in the countryside, Kabul was widely disturbed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Soviets	Soviet	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Kabul	Kabul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	during	during	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	–	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Afghan	Afghan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
25	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	countryside	countryside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	Kabul	Kabul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
32	widely	widely	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	disturbed	disturb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | the Soviets | the city of Kabul |  | Soviets's command centre | during the Soviet Afghan War |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent city=Theme into centre=Trajectory |
| 2 | **fight** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the countryside |  | place *obj*; mostly, take *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **disturb** | past · passive |  | Kabul |  |  |  | widely *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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