Kuwait, sentence 78
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 gave Britain exclusive access and trade with Kuwait, while denying Ottoman and Germany provinces to the north a port on the Persian Gulf.
Who acts: This · What happens: give, deny · To what, where: exclusive access, Britain, Ottoman provinces
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), 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 | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | exclusive | exclusive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 access | amod |
| 5 | access | access | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 trade | cc |
| 7 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 access | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 Kuwait | case |
| 9 | Kuwait | Kuwait | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 trade | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 denying | punct |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 denying | mark |
| 12 | denying | deny | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 gave | advcl |
| 13 | Ottoman | Ottoman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 provinces | compound |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Germany | cc |
| 15 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Ottoman | conj |
| 16 | provinces | province | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 denying | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 north | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 north | det |
| 19 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 denying | obl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 port | det |
| 21 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 denying | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 Gulf | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Gulf | det |
| 24 | Persian | Persian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Gulf | compound |
| 25 | Gulf | Gulf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 port | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | This | exclusive access and trade with Kuwait | Britain | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent britain=Recipient access=Theme | |||
| 2 | deny | gerund | This not said here | Ottoman provinces | to the north; a port obj | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent province=Theme port=Eventuality |
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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