Qatar, sentence 280

From Wikipedia, «Qatar», 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.

A senior researcher for HRW told The Guardian in 2022 of a transgender woman who was detained underground in solitary confinement for two months underground, had her long hair forcibly shaved in detention, was severely beaten her until she bled, and was denied access to medical care.

Who acts: senior researcher, long hair, researcher · What happens: tell, detain, have, shave, beat, bleed · To what, where: Guardian, 2022, transgender woman, solitary confinement, long hair, detention · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Qatar». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (senior researcher, long hair, researcher), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 researcher	det
2	senior	senior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 researcher	amod
3	researcher	researcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 HRW	case
5	HRW	HRW	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 researcher	nmod
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Guardian	det
8	Guardian	guardian	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	iobj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 2022	case
10	2022	2022	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 told	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 woman	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 woman	det
13	transgender	transgender	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 woman	compound
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 2022	nmod
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 detained	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 detained	aux:pass
17	detained	detain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 woman	acl:relcl
18	underground	underground	ADV	_	17 detained	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 confinement	case
20	solitary	solitary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 confinement	amod
21	confinement	confinement	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 detained	obl
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 months	case
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 months	nummod
24	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 detained	obl
25	underground	underground	ADV	_	24 months	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	parataxis
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 hair	nmod:poss
29	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 hair	amod
30	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
31	forcibly	forcibly	ADV	_	27 had	advmod
32	shaved	shave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 had	xcomp
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 detention	case
34	detention	detention	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 shaved	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 beaten	punct
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 beaten	aux:pass
37	severely	severely	ADV	_	38 beaten	advmod
38	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 had	parataxis
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 beaten	obj
40	until	until	SCONJ	_	42 bled	mark
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 bled	nsubj
42	bled	bleed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 beaten	advcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 denied	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 denied	cc
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 denied	aux:pass
46	denied	deny	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 told	conj
47	access	access	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 denied	obj
48	to	to	ADP	_	50 care	case
49	medical	medical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 care	amod
50	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 denied	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	a senior researcher for HRW		the Guardian	2022 of a transgender woman			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent guardian=Recipient
2	detain	past · passive		a transgender woman		solitary confinement	month	underground property	vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	have	past		researcher's long hair				forcibly property	tree rules
4	shave	participle	researcher's long hair not said here			detention			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	beat	past · passive		researcher				severely property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: she=Theme
6	bleed	past	researcher						vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
7	deny	past · passive	a senior researcher for HRW not said here	access				to medical care	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: access=Eventuality

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, «Qatar», 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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Qatar, sentence 280