Kuwait, sentence 236
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.
During the 1991 Kuwaiti oil fires, more than 500 oil lakes were created covering a combined surface area of about 35.7 km2.
What happens: create, cover, combine · To what, where: 500 oil lakes, combined surface area
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: 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 6 fires | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fires | det |
| 3 | 1991 | 1991 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 fires | nummod |
| 4 | Kuwaiti | kuwaiti | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fires | amod |
| 5 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fires | compound |
| 6 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 created | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fires | punct |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 10 500 | advmod |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 more | fixed |
| 10 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 lakes | nummod |
| 11 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lakes | compound |
| 12 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 created | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 created | aux:pass |
| 14 | created | create | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | covering | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 created | xcomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 area | det |
| 17 | combined | combine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 area | amod |
| 18 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 area | compound |
| 19 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 covering | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 35.7 | case |
| 21 | about | about | ADV | _ | 22 35.7 | advmod |
| 22 | 35.7 | 35.7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 area | nmod |
| 23 | km2 | km2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 35.7 | flat |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 created | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | create | past · passive | 500 oil lakes | during the 1991 Kuwaiti oil fires | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cover | gerund | a combined surface area of 35.7 | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme area=Destination | |||||
| 3 | combine | participle | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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