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title: Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakista… — Pakistan · tree and pragmatics
description: Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India". A sentence of Wikipedia's «Pakistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Pakistan, sentence 1369

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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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Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India".

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**What happens:** create · **To what, where:** New Medina, State Power

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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: 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:1369
# text = Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India".
1	Creating	create	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Medina	medina	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	State	State	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Power	Power	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Islam	Islam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Quest	quest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Pakistan	Pakistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	Late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Colonial	Colonial	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **create** | gerund |  | a New Medina |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medina=Result |

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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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