Kuwait City, sentence 37
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.
This massive growth attracted many foreign workers, especially from Jordan, Egypt and India and helped finance the development of a new master plan, which the state approved in 1952.
Who acts: massive growth, new master plan · What happens: attract, help, finance, state, approve, develop · To what, where: many foreign workers, Jordan, development, state, 1952, new master plan
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 (massive growth, new master plan), 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 | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 growth | det |
| 2 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 growth | amod |
| 3 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 attracted | nsubj |
| 4 | attracted | attract | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 workers | amod |
| 6 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 workers | amod |
| 7 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 attracted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Jordan | punct |
| 9 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 11 Jordan | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 Jordan | case |
| 11 | Jordan | Jordan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 workers | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Egypt | punct |
| 13 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Jordan | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 India | cc |
| 15 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Jordan | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 helped | cc |
| 17 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 attracted | conj |
| 18 | finance | finance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 helped | xcomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 development | det |
| 20 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 finance | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 plan | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 plan | det |
| 23 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 plan | amod |
| 24 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 plan | compound |
| 25 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 development | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 state | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 state | nsubj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 state | det |
| 29 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 plan | appos |
| 30 | approved | approve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 state | acl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 1952 | case |
| 32 | 1952 | 1952 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 approved | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 attracted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attract | past | this massive growth | many foreign workers | Jordan and Egypt and India | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worker=Patient | |||
| 2 | help | past | this massive growth not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | finance | infinitive | this massive growth not said here | the development of a new master plan | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | state speech: other | a new master plan | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | approve | participle | the state not said here | 1952 | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | develop | a new master plan | nom development «act 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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