Kuwait City, sentence 72

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.

After a series of failed diplomatic negotiations, the United States led a coalition to remove the Iraqi forces from Kuwait, in what became known as the Gulf War.

Who acts: United States, coalition · What happens: fail, lead, remove, know · To what, where: coalition, Iraqi forces, Kuwait

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 (United States, coalition), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 series	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 series	det
3	series	series	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 led	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 negotiations	case
5	failed	fail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 negotiations	amod
6	diplomatic	diplomatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 negotiations	amod
7	negotiations	negotiation	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 series	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 series	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 States	det
10	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 States	amod
11	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 led	nsubj
12	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 coalition	det
14	coalition	coalition	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 led	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 remove	mark
16	remove	remove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 led	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 forces	det
18	Iraqi	Iraqi	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 forces	amod
19	forces	force	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 remove	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 Kuwait	case
21	Kuwait	Kuwait	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 forces	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 known	punct
23	in	in	SCONJ	_	26 known	mark
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 known	nsubj:pass
25	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 known	aux:pass
26	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 remove	advcl
27	as	as	ADP	_	30 War	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 War	det
29	Gulf	Gulf	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 War	compound
30	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 known	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fail	participle						vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lead	past	the United States	a coalition		after a series of failed diplomatic negotiations		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent coalition=Patient clause=Result
3	remove	to-infinitive	a coalition not said here	the Iraqi forces	Kuwait			vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent force=Theme from kuwait=Source
4	know	past · passive					as the Gulf War; what nsubj:pass	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as war=Attribute

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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Kuwait City», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Kuwait City, sentence 72