Abu Dhabi, sentence 272
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.
Abu Dhabi introduced four toll gates in 2021 on all bridges (Sheikh Zayed Bridge, Maqtaa Bridge, Mussafah Bridge, and Sheikh Khalifa Bridge) entering the main Abu Dhabi island that only operate during peak hours, and by year-end had over 1.8 million registered cars in the system.
Who acts: Abu, Khalifa Bridge, 1.8 million · What happens: introduce, enter, operate, have over, register · To what, where: four toll gates, 2021, main Abu island, cars, system
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 (Abu, Khalifa Bridge, 1.8 million), 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 | Abu | Abu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 introduced | nsubj |
| 2 | Dhabi | Dhabi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Abu | flat |
| 3 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 gates | nummod |
| 5 | toll | toll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gates | compound |
| 6 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 introduced | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 2021 | case |
| 8 | 2021 | 2021 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 introduced | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 bridges | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 bridges | det |
| 11 | bridges | bridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 introduced | obl |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 Zayed | punct |
| 13 | Sheikh | Sheikh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Zayed | compound |
| 14 | Zayed | Zayed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 bridges | nmod |
| 15 | Bridge | Bridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Zayed | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Bridge | punct |
| 17 | Maqtaa | Maqtaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Bridge | compound |
| 18 | Bridge | Bridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Zayed | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Bridge | punct |
| 20 | Mussafah | Mussafah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Bridge | compound |
| 21 | Bridge | Bridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Zayed | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 entering | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 entering | cc |
| 24 | Sheikh | Sheikh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Khalifa | compound |
| 25 | Khalifa | Khalifa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Bridge | compound |
| 26 | Bridge | Bridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 entering | nsubj |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 Bridge | punct |
| 28 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 introduced | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 island | det |
| 30 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 island | amod |
| 31 | Abu | Abu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 island | compound |
| 32 | Dhabi | Dhabi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Abu | flat |
| 33 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 entering | obj |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 operate | obj |
| 35 | only | only | ADV | _ | 36 operate | advmod |
| 36 | operate | operate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 island | acl:relcl |
| 37 | during | during | ADP | _ | 39 hours | case |
| 38 | peak | peak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 hours | compound |
| 39 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 operate | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 had | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 had | cc |
| 42 | by | by | ADP | _ | 45 end | case |
| 43 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 end | compound |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 year | punct |
| 45 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 had | obl |
| 46 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 introduced | parataxis |
| 47 | over | over | ADV | _ | 49 million | advmod |
| 48 | 1.8 | 1.8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 49 million | compound |
| 49 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 50 registered | nsubj |
| 50 | registered | register | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 had | ccomp |
| 51 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 registered | obj |
| 52 | in | in | ADP | _ | 54 system | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 system | det |
| 54 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 registered | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 introduced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | introduce | past | Abu | four toll gates | 2021 | on all bridges Sheikh Zayed and Maqtaa Bridge and Mussafah Bridge | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Patient | ||
| 2 | enter | gerund | Khalifa Bridge | the main Abu island | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme island=Destination | ||||
| 3 | operate | present | the main Abu island | hour | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Theme that=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | have over | past | by year end | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | register | past | 1.8 million | cars | the system | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme |
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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