Abu Dhabi, sentence 38
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.
On 5 January 1936, Petroleum Development Trucial Coast Ltd (PDTC), an associate company of the Iraq Petroleum Company, entered into a concession agreement with the ruler, Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan, to explore for oil.
Who acts: Petroleum Coast Ltd · What happens: enter, explore · To what, where: 5
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 (Petroleum Coast Ltd), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 5 | case |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 entered | obl |
| 3 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 1936 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 1936 | 1936 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 5 | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 5 | punct |
| 6 | Petroleum | Petroleum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Ltd | compound |
| 7 | Development | Development | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Petroleum | flat |
| 8 | Trucial | Trucial | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Petroleum | flat |
| 9 | Coast | Coast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Ltd | compound |
| 10 | Ltd | Ltd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 entered | nsubj |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 PDTC | punct |
| 12 | PDTC | PDTC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Ltd | appos |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 PDTC | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 company | punct |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 company | det |
| 16 | associate | associate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 company | compound |
| 17 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Ltd | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Company | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Company | det |
| 20 | Iraq | Iraq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Company | compound |
| 21 | Petroleum | Petroleum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Company | compound |
| 22 | Company | Company | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 company | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ltd | punct |
| 24 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 agreement | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 agreement | det |
| 27 | concession | concession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 agreement | compound |
| 28 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 entered | obl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 ruler | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 ruler | det |
| 31 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 agreement | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Shakhbut | punct |
| 33 | Sheikh | Sheikh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Shakhbut | compound |
| 34 | Shakhbut | Shakhbut | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 agreement | appos |
| 35 | bin | Bin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Shakhbut | flat |
| 36 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Shakhbut | flat |
| 37 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Shakhbut | flat |
| 38 | Nahyan | Nahyan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Shakhbut | flat |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 explore | punct |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 explore | mark |
| 41 | explore | explore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 entered | advcl |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 oil | case |
| 43 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 explore | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Petroleum Coast Ltd | 5 1936 January | into a concession agreement with the ruler | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into agreement=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | explore | to-infinitive | Petroleum Coast Ltd not said here | for oil | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for oil=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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