United Arab Emirates, sentence 154
From Wikipedia, «United Arab Emirates», 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.
The UAE coast stretches for nearly 650 km along the southern shore of the Persian Gulf, briefly interrupted by an isolated outcrop of the Sultanate of Oman.
Who acts: UAE coast · What happens: stretch, interrupt · To what, where: southern shore
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «United Arab Emirates». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (UAE coast), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 coast | det |
| 2 | UAE | UAE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 coast | compound |
| 3 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stretches | nsubj |
| 4 | stretches | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 km | case |
| 6 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 7 650 | advmod |
| 7 | 650 | 650 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 km | nummod |
| 8 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stretches | obl |
| 9 | along | along | ADP | _ | 12 shore | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shore | det |
| 11 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shore | amod |
| 12 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stretches | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Gulf | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Gulf | det |
| 15 | Persian | Persian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Gulf | compound |
| 16 | Gulf | Gulf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 shore | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 interrupted | punct |
| 18 | briefly | briefly | ADV | _ | 19 interrupted | advmod |
| 19 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stretches | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 outcrop | case |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 outcrop | det |
| 22 | isolated | isolated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 outcrop | amod |
| 23 | outcrop | outcrop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 interrupted | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Sultanate | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Sultanate | det |
| 26 | Sultanate | Sultanate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 outcrop | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Oman | case |
| 28 | Oman | Oman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Sultanate | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stretches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | present | the UAE coast | the southern shore of the Persian Gulf | for 650 km | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along shore=Location | |||
| 2 | interrupt | participle | the UAE coast not said here | by a isolated outcrop of the Sultanate of Oman; briefly property | 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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