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title: Since 9/11, Pakistan has been a US ally on counterterrorism, but the… — Pakistan · tree and pragmatics
description: Since 9/11, Pakistan has been a US ally on counterterrorism, but their relationship has been strained due to diverging interests and mistrust during the 20-year war and terrorism issues. Who acts: Pakistan. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Pakistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Pakistan, sentence 241

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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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Since 9/11, Pakistan has been a US ally on counterterrorism, but their relationship has been strained due to diverging interests and mistrust during the 20-year war and terrorism issues.

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**Who acts:** Pakistan · **What happens:** be, strain, diverge · **To what, where:** US ally, counterterrorism, relationship

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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 (Pakistan), 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:241
# text = Since 9/11, Pakistan has been a US ally on counterterrorism, but their relationship has been strained due to diverging interests and mistrust during the 20-year war and terrorism issues.
1	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	9/11	9/11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Pakistan	Pakistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	ally	ally	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	counterterrorism	counterterrorism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	relationship	relationship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	strained	strain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
19	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	diverging	diverge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	amod	_	_
22	interests	interest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	mistrust	mistrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	during	during	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	20-year	20-year	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	28	amod	_	_
28	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	terrorism	terrorism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	issues	issue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present · perfect | Pakistan | a US ally |  | counterterrorism | since 9/11 |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **strain** | present · perfect · passive |  | relations's relationship |  |  | during the 20-year war and terrorism issues | due diverging interests and mistrust | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |
| 3 | **diverge** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn differ-23.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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