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title: The demonym "Kabuli" (کابلی) refers to a native of the city, who is… — Kabul · tree and pragmatics
description: The demonym "Kabuli" (کابلی) refers to a native of the city, who is generally ethnic-neutral, understands Dari and Pashto, well educated, and favors Western clothing fashion. Who acts: demonym, city, favors. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kabul» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kabul, sentence 328

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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 demonym "Kabuli" (کابلی) refers to a native of the city, who is generally ethnic-neutral, understands Dari and Pashto, well educated, and favors Western clothing fashion.

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**Who acts:** demonym, city, favors · **What happens:** refer, be, understand, educate, fashion · **To what, where:** Dari

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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 (demonym, city, favors), 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:328
# text = The demonym "Kabuli" (کابلی) refers to a native of the city, who is generally ethnic-neutral, understands Dari and Pashto, well educated, and favors Western clothing fashion.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	demonym	demonym	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Kabuli	Kabuli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	کابلی	کابلی	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
9	refers	refer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	native	native	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	neutral	neutral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	understands	understand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
25	Dari	Dari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	Pashto	Pashto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
30	educated	educate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	favors	favor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
34	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	clothing	clothing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refer** | present | the demonym |  |  |  |  | to a native of the city | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to native=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the city |  |  |  |  | generally, neutral *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **understand** | present | the demonym *not said here* | Dari and Pashto |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer dari=Stimulus |
| 4 | **educate** *speech: other* | participle |  | Dari and Pashto *not said here* |  |  |  | well *property* | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fashion** |  | favors |  |  |  |  |  | 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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