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title: The closest foreign capital cities as the crow flies are Islamabad,… — Kabul · tree and pragmatics
description: The closest foreign capital cities as the crow flies are Islamabad, Dushanbe, Tashkent, New Delhi and Bishkek. Who acts: crow flies. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kabul» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kabul, sentence 245

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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 closest foreign capital cities as the crow flies are Islamabad, Dushanbe, Tashkent, New Delhi and Bishkek.

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**Who acts:** crow flies · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** closest foreign capital cities

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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 (crow flies), 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:245
# text = The closest foreign capital cities as the crow flies are Islamabad, Dushanbe, Tashkent, New Delhi and Bishkek.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	closest	close	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
3	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	Islamabad	Islamabad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Dushanbe	Dushanbe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Tashkent	Tashkent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Delhi	Delhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Bishkek	Bishkek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the crow flies |  |  |  |  | as Islamabad and Tashkent and New Delhi and Bishkek; Tashkent *conj*; New Delhi *conj*; Bishkek *conj* | tree rules |

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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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