Kuwait City, sentence 28
From Wikipedia, «Kuwait City», 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 1937, Freya Stark wrote about the extent of poverty in Kuwait at the time:
Who acts: Freya · What happens: write, extend · To what, where: 1937, poverty
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kuwait City». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Freya), 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 1937 | case |
| 2 | 1937 | 1937 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 wrote | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1937 | punct |
| 4 | Freya | Freya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wrote | nsubj |
| 5 | Stark | Stark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Freya | flat |
| 6 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 extent | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 extent | det |
| 9 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wrote | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 poverty | case |
| 11 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 extent | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Kuwait | case |
| 13 | Kuwait | Kuwait | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 poverty | nmod |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 poverty | nmod |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | Freya | 1937 | about the extent of poverty in Kuwait at the time | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about extent=Topic | |||
| 2 | extend | poverty in Kuwait at the time | nom extent «state transitive»: of=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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