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title: Its geographic location in a narrow valley made it an easy target fr… — Kabul · tree and pragmatics
description: Its geographic location in a narrow valley made it an easy target from rockets fired by militias who based themselves in the surrounding mountains. Who acts: geographic location, militias. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kabul» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kabul, sentence 204

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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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Its geographic location in a narrow valley made it an easy target from rockets fired by militias who based themselves in the surrounding mountains.

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**Who acts:** geographic location, militias · **What happens:** make, fire, base, surround · **To what, where:** city, rockets, targets, surrounding mountains

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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 (geographic location, militias), 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:204
# text = Its geographic location in a narrow valley made it an easy target from rockets fired by militias who based themselves in the surrounding mountains.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	geographic	geographic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	location	location	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	target	target	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	rockets	rocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
15	fired	fire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	militias	militia	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
20	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	surrounding	surround	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	amod	_	_
24	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | city's geographic location in a narrow valley | city |  | rockets |  | a easy target *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP PP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary target=Product from rocket=Material |
| 2 | **fire** | participle |  | rockets *not said here* |  |  |  | by militias | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent by militia=Destination |
| 3 | **base** | participle | militias | targets *= target* |  | the surrounding mountains |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
| 4 | **surround** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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, «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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