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title: Initially a close ally during the Cold War, Pakistan's relations wit… — Pakistan · tree and pragmatics
description: Initially a close ally during the Cold War, Pakistan's relations with the US soured in the 1990s due to sanctions over its secretive nuclear program. Who acts: close ally, ally. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Pakistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Pakistan, sentence 240

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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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Initially a close ally during the Cold War, Pakistan's relations with the US soured in the 1990s due to sanctions over its secretive nuclear program.

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**Who acts:** close ally, ally · **What happens:** sour, program · **To what, where:** 1990s

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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 (close ally, ally), 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:240
# text = Initially a close ally during the Cold War, Pakistan's relations with the US soured in the 1990s due to sanctions over its secretive nuclear program.
1	Initially	initially	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ally	ally	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
5	during	during	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Cold	Cold	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	Pakistan	Pakistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	soured	sour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	1990s	1990s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
20	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	sanctions	sanction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
23	over	over	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
25	secretive	secretive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	nuclear	nuclear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	program	program	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sour** | past | a close ally during the Cold War |  |  | the 1990s |  | due sanctions; over ally's secretive nuclear program; Pakistan's relations with the US *nsubj* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **program** |  | ally |  |  |  |  |  | nom program «cognition transitive»: poss=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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