Abu Dhabi, sentence 26
From Wikipedia, «Abu Dhabi», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The pearl diving business was a key industry prior to the discovery of oil reserves.
Who acts: pearl · What happens: dive, be, discover · To what, where: business, key industry, oil reserves
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Abu Dhabi». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pearl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pearl | det |
| 2 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 industry | nsubj |
| 3 | diving | dive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 pearl | acl |
| 4 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 diving | obj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 industry | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 industry | det |
| 7 | key | key | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 industry | amod |
| 8 | industry | industry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | prior | prior | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 12 discovery | case |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 prior | fixed |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 discovery | det |
| 12 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 industry | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 reserves | case |
| 14 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reserves | compound |
| 15 | reserves | reserve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 discovery | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 industry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dive | gerund | the pearl not said here | business | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location business=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the pearl | a key industry | prior the discovery of oil reserves | tree rules | |||
| 3 | discover | oil reserves | nom discovery «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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