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title: This figure rose to about 1.5 million by 1988, before dramatically d… — Kabul · tree and pragmatics
description: This figure rose to about 1.5 million by 1988, before dramatically dropping in the 1990s. Who acts: figure. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kabul» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kabul, sentence 310

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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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This figure rose to about 1.5 million by 1988, before dramatically dropping in the 1990s.

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**Who acts:** figure · **What happens:** rise, drop · **To what, where:** 1990s

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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 (figure), 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:310
# text = This figure rose to about 1.5 million by 1988, before dramatically dropping in the 1990s.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	1.5	1.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	compound	_	_
7	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1988	1988	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	dramatically	dramatically	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	dropping	drop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	1990s	1990s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | this figure |  |  |  |  | to 1.5 million *result*; by 1988 | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient to million=Result by 1988=Extent |
| 2 | **drop** | gerund | this figure *not said here* |  |  | the 1990s |  | dramatically *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in 1990s=Trajectory |

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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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