Abu Dhabi, sentence 76
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 is the largest, and wealthiest of the seven emirates, and it plays a crucial role in the UAE's governance and economy.
Who acts: Abu, capital · What happens: be, play · To what, where: crucial role, governance
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, capital), 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 | 5 largest | nsubj |
| 2 | Dhabi | Dhabi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Abu | flat |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 largest | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 largest | det |
| 5 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wealthiest | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wealthiest | cc |
| 8 | wealthiest | wealthy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 largest | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 emirates | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 emirates | det |
| 11 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 emirates | nummod |
| 12 | emirates | emirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wealthiest | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 plays | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 plays | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 plays | nsubj |
| 16 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wealthiest | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 role | det |
| 18 | crucial | crucial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 role | amod |
| 19 | role | role | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 plays | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 governance | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 UAE | det |
| 22 | UAE | UAE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 governance | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 UAE | case |
| 24 | governance | governance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 plays | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 economy | cc |
| 26 | economy | economy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 governance | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wealthiest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Abu | large property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Abu not said here | of the seven emirates | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | play | present | capital | a crucial role | the UAE's governance and economy | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=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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