Kuwait, sentence 158
From Wikipedia, «Kuwait», 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 6 February 1974, Palestinian militants occupied the Japanese embassy in Kuwait, taking the ambassador and ten others hostage.
Who acts: Palestinian militants · What happens: occupy, take · To what, where: Japanese embassy, Kuwait, ambassador
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kuwait». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Palestinian militants), 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 | _ | 3 February | case |
| 2 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 February | nummod |
| 3 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 occupied | obl |
| 4 | 1974 | 1974 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 February | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 February | punct |
| 6 | Palestinian | Palestinian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 militants | amod |
| 7 | militants | militant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 occupied | nsubj |
| 8 | occupied | occupy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 embassy | det |
| 10 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 embassy | amod |
| 11 | embassy | embassy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 occupied | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Kuwait | case |
| 13 | Kuwait | Kuwait | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 embassy | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 taking | punct |
| 15 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 occupied | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ambassador | det |
| 17 | ambassador | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taking | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 others | cc |
| 19 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 others | nummod |
| 20 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ambassador | conj |
| 21 | hostage | hostage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ambassador | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 occupied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occupy | past | Palestinian militants | the Japanese embassy | Kuwait | february | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus embassy=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | take | gerund | Palestinian militants not said here | the ambassador and ten others and hostage | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ambassador=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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