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title: Migration from India, especially to Karachi, the largest metropolis,… — Pakistan · tree and pragmatics
description: Migration from India, especially to Karachi, the largest metropolis, and from nearby countries, accelerates urbanisation, posing new political and socio-economic challenges. Who acts: Migration. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Pakistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Pakistan, sentence 459

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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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Migration from India, especially to Karachi, the largest metropolis, and from nearby countries, accelerates urbanisation, posing new political and socio-economic challenges.

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**Who acts:** Migration · **What happens:** accelerate, pose · **To what, where:** urbanisation, nearby countries, new political challenges

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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 (Migration), 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:459
# text = Migration from India, especially to Karachi, the largest metropolis, and from nearby countries, accelerates urbanisation, posing new political and socio-economic challenges.
1	Migration	migration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Karachi	Karachi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	metropolis	metropolis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	nearby	nearby	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	accelerates	accelerate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	urbanisation	urbanisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	posing	pose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
22	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
23	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	socio-economic	socio-economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
26	challenges	challenge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accelerate** | present | Migration from India and Karachi | urbanisation |  | nearby countries |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent urbanisation=Patient |
| 2 | **pose** | gerund | Migration from India and Karachi *not said here* | new political challenges |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent challenge=Attribute |

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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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