Kuwait City, sentence 8
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 the early to mid 1700s, Kuwait City was a small fishing village.
Who acts: Kuwait · What happens: be · To what, where: small fishing village, early mid 1700s
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 | _ | 6 1700s | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 1700s | det |
| 3 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 1700s | amod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 mid | case |
| 5 | mid | mid | X | _ | 6 1700s | compound |
| 6 | 1700s | 1700 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 14 village | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 1700s | punct |
| 8 | Kuwait | Kuwait | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 village | nsubj |
| 9 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Kuwait | flat |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 village | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 village | det |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 village | amod |
| 13 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 village | compound |
| 14 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 village | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Kuwait | a small fishing village | the early mid 1700s | tree rules |
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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