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title: Pakistan is considered a middle power nation, with the world's seven… — Pakistan · tree and pragmatics
description: Pakistan is considered a middle power nation, with the world's seventh-largest standing armed forces in terms of personnel size, comprising approximately 660,000 active-duty troops and 291,000 paramilitary personnel as of 2024. Who acts: world. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Pakistan» with its dependenc
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# Pakistan, sentence 285

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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 is considered a middle power nation, with the world's seventh-largest standing armed forces in terms of personnel size, comprising approximately 660,000 active-duty troops and 291,000 paramilitary personnel as of 2024.

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**Who acts:** world · **What happens:** consider, comprise, stand, term · **To what, where:** Pakistan, 660,000 active duty troops, personnel size

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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 (world), 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:285
# text = Pakistan is considered a middle power nation, with the world's seventh-largest standing armed forces in terms of personnel size, comprising approximately 660,000 active-duty troops and 291,000 paramilitary personnel as of 2024.
1	Pakistan	Pakistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	seventh	seventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	standing	standing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	personnel	personnel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	comprising	comprise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
26	approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	660,000	660,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
28	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	25	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	291,000	291,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
34	paramilitary	paramilitary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	personnel	personnel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
36	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	38	case	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	fixed	_	_
38	2024	2024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | present · passive |  | Pakistan |  |  |  | with armed forces  the world's seventh largest standing in terms of personnel size; a middle power nation *xcomp* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **comprise** | gerund |  | 660,000 active duty troops and 291,000 paramilitary personnel |  |  |  | as 2024 | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme troops=Pivot |
| 3 | **stand** |  | the world |  |  |  |  |  | nom standing «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **term** |  |  | personnel size |  |  |  |  | nom term «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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