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title: This led to Operation Searchlight, a military crackdown, and eventua… — Pakistan · tree and pragmatics
description: This led to Operation Searchlight, a military crackdown, and eventually sparked the war of liberation by Bengali Mukti Bahini forces in East Pakistan, described in West Pakistan as a civil war rather than a liberation struggle. Who acts: led, liberation. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Pakistan» with its
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# Pakistan, sentence 108

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From Wikipedia, [«Pakistan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan), 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 led to Operation Searchlight, a military crackdown, and eventually sparked the war of liberation by Bengali Mukti Bahini forces in East Pakistan, described in West Pakistan as a civil war rather than a liberation struggle.

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**Who acts:** led, liberation · **What happens:** spark, describe, war · **To what, where:** war, Bahini forces, West Pakistan

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Pakistan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (led, liberation), 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:Pakistan:108
# text = This led to Operation Searchlight, a military crackdown, and eventually sparked the war of liberation by Bengali Mukti Bahini forces in East Pakistan, described in West Pakistan as a civil war rather than a liberation struggle.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	led	led	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Operation	Operation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	Searchlight	Searchlight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	crackdown	crackdown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	eventually	eventually	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	sparked	spark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	liberation	liberation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Bengali	Bengali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	Mukti	Mukti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	Bahini	Bahini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	appos	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	Pakistan	Pakistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Pakistan	Pakistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
35	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	39	cc	_	_
36	than	than	ADP	IN	_	35	fixed	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	liberation	liberation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	struggle	struggle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spark** | past | this led to Operation | the war of liberation |  |  |  | by Bengali; eventually *property* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition war=Patient |
| 2 | **describe** | participle |  | Bahini forces in East *not said here* |  | West Pakistan |  | as a civil war rather a liberation struggle | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent as war=Attribute |
| 3 | **war** |  | liberation |  |  |  |  |  | nom war «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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, «Pakistan», 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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