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title: In one of them, Abdur Rahman bin Samara arrived in Kabul from Zaranj… — Kabul · tree and pragmatics
description: In one of them, Abdur Rahman bin Samara arrived in Kabul from Zaranj in the late 600s and converted 12,000 inhabitants to Islam before abandoning the city. Who acts: Abdur. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kabul» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kabul, sentence 72

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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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In one of them, Abdur Rahman bin Samara arrived in Kabul from Zaranj in the late 600s and converted 12,000 inhabitants to Islam before abandoning the city.

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**Who acts:** Abdur · **What happens:** arrive, abandon · **To what, where:** Kabul, city

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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 (Abdur), 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:72
# text = In one of them, Abdur Rahman bin Samara arrived in Kabul from Zaranj in the late 600s and converted 12,000 inhabitants to Islam before abandoning the city.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	Abdur	Abdur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	Rahman	Rahman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
9	Samara	Samara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
10	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Kabul	Kabul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Zaranj	Zaranj	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	600s	600	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	converted	converted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	12,000	12,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Islam	Islam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	abandoning	abandon	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | Abdur |  |  | Kabul |  | in one of expeditions; from Zaranj; in the late 600s and converted 12,000 inhabitants to Islam | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from zaranj=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **abandon** | gerund | Abdur *not said here* | the city |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme city=Source |

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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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