Kuwait, sentence 322
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.
The alternating system was resumed when Sheikh Sabah Al-Salim named Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmed of the Jabir branch as his crown prince, eventually ruling as Emir for 29 years from 1977 to 2006.
What happens: resume, name, rule · To what, where: alternating system, Sheikh Sabah
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 system | det |
| 2 | alternating | alternating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 system | compound |
| 3 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 resumed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 resumed | aux:pass |
| 5 | resumed | resume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 named | mark |
| 7 | Sheikh | Sheikh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Sabah | compound |
| 8 | Sabah | Sabah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 named | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Sabah | flat |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Salim | punct |
| 11 | Salim | Salim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Sabah | conj |
| 12 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 resumed | advcl |
| 13 | Sheikh | Sheikh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Jaber | compound |
| 14 | Jaber | Jaber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 named | xcomp |
| 15 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Jaber | flat |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Ahmed | punct |
| 17 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Jaber | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 branch | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 branch | det |
| 20 | Jabir | Jabir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 branch | compound |
| 21 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Ahmed | nmod |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 prince | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 prince | nmod:poss |
| 24 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 prince | compound |
| 25 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 named | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 ruling | punct |
| 27 | eventually | eventually | ADV | _ | 28 ruling | advmod |
| 28 | ruling | rule | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 resumed | advcl |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 Emir | case |
| 30 | Emir | Emir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 ruling | obl |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 years | case |
| 32 | 29 | 29 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 years | nummod |
| 33 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 ruling | obl |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 1977 | case |
| 35 | 1977 | 1977 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 years | nmod |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 2006 | case |
| 37 | 2006 | 2006 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 35 1977 | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 resumed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resume | past · passive | the alternating system | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | name | participle · passive | Sheikh Sabah and Salim | as Sabah's crown prince; Sheikh Jaber xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as prince=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | rule | gerund | year | as Emir; eventually property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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