Kuwait City, sentence 3
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.
as of 2018 the metropolitan area had roughly three million inhabitants (more than 70% of the country's population).
Who acts: metropolitan area · What happens: have · To what, where: million inhabitants
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 (metropolitan area), 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 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 3 2018 | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 as | fixed |
| 3 | 2018 | 2018 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 had | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 area | det |
| 5 | metropolitan | metropolitan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 area | compound |
| 6 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 10 million | advmod |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 million | compound |
| 10 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 inhabitants | nummod |
| 11 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | obj |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 % | punct |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 15 70 | advmod |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 more | fixed |
| 15 | 70 | 70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 % | nummod |
| 16 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 11 inhabitants | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 population | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 country | det |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 population | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 country | case |
| 21 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 % | nmod |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 % | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the metropolitan area | million inhabitants | as 2018 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inhabitant=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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