--- title: Kabul also has small Sindhi and Punjabi merchant communities (which… — Kabul · tree and pragmatics description: Kabul also has small Sindhi and Punjabi merchant communities (which most of the Sikhs and Hindus belong to) and Turkish communities (mostly business-owners and investors), and in the 1980s had a sizable Russian community during the Soviet campaign in the country. 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Kabul also has small Sindhi and Punjabi merchant communities (which most of the Sikhs and Hindus belong to) and Turkish communities (mostly business-owners and investors), and in the 1980s had a sizable Russian community during the Soviet campaign in the country. **Who acts:** Kabul, small Sindhi, Sikhs, 1980s · **What happens:** have, merchant, belong · **To what, where:** communities, sizable Russian community 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, small Sindhi, Sikhs, 1980s), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:333 # text = Kabul also has small Sindhi and Punjabi merchant communities (which most of the Sikhs and Hindus belong to) and Turkish communities (mostly business-owners and investors), and in the 1980s had a sizable Russian community during the Soviet campaign in the country. 1 Kabul Kabul PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 also also ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 Sindhi Sindhi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 Punjabi Punjabi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 merchant merchant VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 9 communities community NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 nmod _ _ 13 of of SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Sikhs Sikh PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 Hindus Hindu PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 18 belong belong VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 Turkish Turkish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 communities community NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 24 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 26 business business NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 owners owner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 appos _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 investors investor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 1980s 1980s NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 37 nsubj _ _ 37 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 sizable sizable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 Russian Russian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 community community NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 42 during during ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 Soviet Soviet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 campaign campaign NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 46 in in ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Kabul | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **merchant** | present | small Sindhi and Punjabi | communities most communities most communities | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **belong** | present | the Sikhs and Hindus | | | | | to Turkish communities | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **have** | past | the 1980s | a sizable Russian community | | | during the Soviet campaign in the country | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent community=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 332](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kabul/332/) - next →: [sentence 334](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kabul/334/) - ↑ back to [Kabul](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kabul/)