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title: There are records of religious correspondence establishing the prese… — Kabul · tree and pragmatics
description: There are records of religious correspondence establishing the presence of Jews in Kabul since the 8th century, though it is believed that they were present centuries or even millennia earlier. Who acts: records, religious correspondence. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kabul» with its dependency tree an
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# Kabul, sentence 335

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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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There are records of religious correspondence establishing the presence of Jews in Kabul since the 8th century, though it is believed that they were present centuries or even millennia earlier.

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**Who acts:** records, religious correspondence · **What happens:** be, establish, believe, record · **To what, where:** presence, present centuries, religious correspondence

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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 (records, religious correspondence), 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:335
# text = There are records of religious correspondence establishing the presence of Jews in Kabul since the 8th century, though it is believed that they were present centuries or even millennia earlier.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	records	record	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	correspondence	correspondence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	establishing	establish	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Kabul	Kabul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	since	since	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	8th	8th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	17	amod	_	_
17	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	believed	believe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	even	even	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	millennia	millennia	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	_
31	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | records of religious correspondence |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **establish** | gerund | religious correspondence *not said here* | the presence of Jews in Kabul |  |  | century |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presence=Patient |
| 3 | **believe** | present · passive |  | presence |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | past | records *= record* | present centuries |  |  |  | millennia *nmod* | tree rules |
| 5 | **record** |  |  | religious correspondence |  |  |  |  | nom record «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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