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title: More recently, the population was around 500,000 in 1979, while anot… — Kabul · tree and pragmatics
description: More recently, the population was around 500,000 in 1979, while another source claims 337,715 as of 1976. Who acts: population, source. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kabul» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kabul, sentence 309

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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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More recently, the population was around 500,000 in 1979, while another source claims 337,715 as of 1976.

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**Who acts:** population, source · **What happens:** be, claim · **To what, where:** 500,000, 1979, 337,715

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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 (population, source), 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:309
# text = More recently, the population was around 500,000 in 1979, while another source claims 337,715 as of 1976.
1	More	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
2	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	around	around	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	500,000	500,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1979	1979	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	claims	claim	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	337,715	337,715	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obj	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	19	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	1976	1976	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the population | 500,000 |  | 1979 |  | around *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **claim** *speech: other* | present | another source | 337,715 |  |  |  | as 1976 | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent 337,715=Topic |

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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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