Kuwait, sentence 161
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.
This was the first time Palestinian guerrillas struck in Kuwait as the Al Sabah ruling family, headed by Sheikh Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, funded the Palestinian resistance movement.
Who acts: This, Palestinian guerrillas · What happens: be, strike, rule, head, fund · To what, where: first time, Kuwait, Al ruling family, Palestinian resistance movement
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 (This, Palestinian guerrillas), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 time | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | Palestinian | Palestinian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 guerrillas | amod |
| 7 | guerrillas | guerrilla | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 struck | nsubj |
| 8 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | acl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Kuwait | case |
| 10 | Kuwait | Kuwait | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 struck | obl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 family | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 family | det |
| 13 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 family | compound |
| 14 | Sabah | Sabah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Al | flat |
| 15 | ruling | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 family | amod |
| 16 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 struck | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 headed | punct |
| 18 | headed | head | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 family | acl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 Sabah | case |
| 20 | Sheikh | Sheikh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Sabah | compound |
| 21 | Sabah | Sabah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 headed | obl:agent |
| 22 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Sabah | flat |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Salim | punct |
| 24 | Salim | Salim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Sabah | flat |
| 25 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Salim | flat |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 Sabah | punct |
| 27 | Sabah | Sabah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Salim | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 funded | punct |
| 29 | funded | fund | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 struck | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 movement | det |
| 31 | Palestinian | Palestinian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 movement | amod |
| 32 | resistance | resistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 movement | compound |
| 33 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 funded | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | the first time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | strike | past | Palestinian guerrillas | the first time not said here | Kuwait | as the Al ruling family | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Patient | ||
| 3 | rule | gerund | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | head | participle | the Al ruling family not said here | Sheikh Sabah obl:agent | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | fund | past | Palestinian guerrillas not said here | the Palestinian resistance movement | tree rules |
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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