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title: Kabul is roughly equidistant between Istanbul (western Asia) and Han… — Kabul · tree and pragmatics
description: Kabul is roughly equidistant between Istanbul (western Asia) and Hanoi (eastern Asia). Who acts: Kabul. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kabul» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kabul, sentence 246

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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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Kabul is roughly equidistant between Istanbul (western Asia) and Hanoi (eastern Asia).

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**Who acts:** Kabul · **What happens:** be

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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 (Kabul), 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:246
# text = Kabul is roughly equidistant between Istanbul (western Asia) and Hanoi (eastern Asia).
1	Kabul	Kabul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	equidistant	equidistant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	between	between	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Istanbul	Istanbul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Hanoi	Hanoi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Kabul |  |  |  |  | between Istanbul and Hanoi; equidistant, roughly *property* | 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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