Kuwait City, sentence 38
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 June 1961, Kuwait became independent with the end of the British protectorate and the sheikh Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah became an Emir.
Who acts: Kuwait · What happens: become
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 (Kuwait), 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 June | case |
| 2 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 became | obl |
| 3 | 1961 | 1961 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 June | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 June | punct |
| 5 | Kuwait | Kuwait | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 became | nsubj |
| 6 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 became | xcomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 end | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 end | det |
| 10 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 became | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 protectorate | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 protectorate | det |
| 13 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 protectorate | amod |
| 14 | protectorate | protectorate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 end | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sheikh | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sheikh | det |
| 17 | sheikh | sheikh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 protectorate | conj |
| 18 | Abdullah | Abdullah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 protectorate | appos |
| 19 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Abdullah | flat |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Salim | punct |
| 21 | Salim | Salim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Abdullah | conj |
| 22 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Abdullah | flat |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Sabah | punct |
| 24 | Sabah | Sabah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Abdullah | conj |
| 25 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 became | conj |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 Emir | det |
| 27 | Emir | Emir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 became | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Kuwait | june | independent property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | become | past | Kuwait not said here | with the end of the British protectorate and the sheikh | a Emir xcomp | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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