Kuwait, sentence 77
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.
In 1899, ruler Sheikh Mubarak Al Sabah signed an agreement with the British government in India (subsequently known as the Anglo-Kuwaiti Agreement of 1899) making Kuwait a British protectorate.
Who acts: Mubarak Al · What happens: sign, know, make · To what, where: agreement, 1899, British protectorate, Kuwait
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 (Mubarak Al), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1899 | case |
| 2 | 1899 | 1899 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 signed | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1899 | punct |
| 4 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Sheikh | compound |
| 5 | Sheikh | Sheikh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mubarak | compound |
| 6 | Mubarak | Mubarak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Al | compound |
| 7 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 signed | nsubj |
| 8 | Sabah | Sabah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Al | flat |
| 9 | signed | sign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 agreement | det |
| 11 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 signed | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 government | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 government | det |
| 14 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 government | amod |
| 15 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 agreement | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 India | case |
| 17 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 signed | obl |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 known | punct |
| 19 | subsequently | subsequently | ADV | _ | 20 known | advmod |
| 20 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 signed | conj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 Agreement | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Agreement | det |
| 23 | Anglo | Anglo | X | _ | 25 Kuwaiti | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Anglo | punct |
| 25 | Kuwaiti | kuwaiti | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Agreement | amod |
| 26 | Agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 known | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 1899 | case |
| 28 | 1899 | 1899 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 Agreement | nmod |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 known | punct |
| 30 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 known | xcomp |
| 31 | Kuwait | Kuwait | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 making | obj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 protectorate | det |
| 33 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 protectorate | amod |
| 34 | protectorate | protectorate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 making | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 signed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sign | past | Mubarak Al | a agreement | 1899 | with the British government; in India | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent agreement=Theme in 1899=Destination | ||
| 2 | know | participle | Mubarak Al not said here | as the Kuwaiti Agreement of 1899; subsequently property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | Mubarak Al not said here | a British protectorate | Kuwait | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset kuwait=Beneficiary protectorate=Product |
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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