Kuwait City, sentence 63
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.
Al Sabah were attracted to Islamists preaching the virtues of a hierarchical order that included loyalty to the Kuwaiti monarchy.
Who acts: hierarchical order · What happens: attract, preach, include · To what, where: Al, Islamists, virtues, loyalty
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 (hierarchical order), 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 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 attracted | nsubj |
| 2 | Sabah | Sabah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Al | flat |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 attracted | aux:pass |
| 4 | attracted | attract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Islamists | case |
| 6 | Islamists | Islamist | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 attracted | obl |
| 7 | preaching | preach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 attracted | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 virtues | det |
| 9 | virtues | virtue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 preaching | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 order | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 order | det |
| 12 | hierarchical | hierarchical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 order | amod |
| 13 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 virtues | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 included | nsubj |
| 15 | included | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 order | acl:relcl |
| 16 | loyalty | loyalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 included | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 monarchy | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 monarchy | det |
| 19 | Kuwaiti | kuwaiti | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 monarchy | amod |
| 20 | monarchy | monarchy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 included | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 attracted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attract | past · passive | Al | Islamists | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to islamist=Result | ||||
| 2 | preach speech: other | gerund | the virtues of a hierarchical order | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent virtue=Topic | |||||
| 3 | include | past | a hierarchical order | loyalty | to the Kuwaiti monarchy | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loyalty=Theme |
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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