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title: Pakistan provided refuge to millions of displaced Afghans after the… — Pakistan · tree and pragmatics
description: Pakistan provided refuge to millions of displaced Afghans after the Soviet invasion and supported the Afghan mujahideen in their efforts to expel Soviet forces from Afghanistan. Who acts: Pakistan. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Pakistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Pakistan, sentence 265

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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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Pakistan provided refuge to millions of displaced Afghans after the Soviet invasion and supported the Afghan mujahideen in their efforts to expel Soviet forces from Afghanistan.

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**Who acts:** Pakistan · **What happens:** provide, displace, support, expel · **To what, where:** refuge, millions, Afghan mujahideen, efforts, Soviet forces, Afghanistan

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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:265
# text = Pakistan provided refuge to millions of displaced Afghans after the Soviet invasion and supported the Afghan mujahideen in their efforts to expel Soviet forces from Afghanistan.
1	Pakistan	Pakistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	provided	provide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	displaced	displace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	Afghans	Afghan	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	supported	support	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Afghan	Afghan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	mujahideen	mujahideen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	expel	expel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
23	Soviet	soviet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Afghanistan	Afghanistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** | past | Pakistan | refuge | millions of displaced Afghans |  | after the Soviet invasion |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent refuge=Theme to million=Recipient |
| 2 | **displace** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **support** | past | Pakistan *not said here* | the Afghan mujahideen |  | invasions's efforts |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mujahideen=Stimulus |
| 4 | **expel** | to-infinitive | Pakistan *not said here* | Soviet forces |  | Afghanistan |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent force=Theme from afghanistan=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, «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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