United Arab Emirates, sentence 211
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.
Half are appointed by the rulers of the constituent emirates, and the other half are elected by a small percentage of Emirati citizens, currently 33%, hand-picked by the rulers of each emirate.
Who acts: small percentage · What happens: appoint, elect, pick · To what, where: Half, other half, small percentage
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 (small percentage), 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 | Half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 3 appointed | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 appointed | aux:pass |
| 3 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 rulers | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rulers | det |
| 6 | rulers | ruler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 appointed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 emirates | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 emirates | det |
| 9 | constituent | constituent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 emirates | amod |
| 10 | emirates | emirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rulers | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 elected | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 elected | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 half | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 half | amod |
| 15 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 17 elected | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 elected | aux:pass |
| 17 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 appointed | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 percentage | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 percentage | det |
| 20 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 percentage | amod |
| 21 | percentage | percentage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 elected | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 citizens | case |
| 23 | Emirati | Emirati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 citizens | compound |
| 24 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 percentage | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 % | punct |
| 26 | currently | currently | ADV | _ | 28 % | advmod |
| 27 | 33 | 33 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 % | nummod |
| 28 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 21 percentage | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 picked | punct |
| 30 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 picked | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 hand | punct |
| 32 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 percentage | acl |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 rulers | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 rulers | det |
| 35 | rulers | ruler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 picked | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 emirate | case |
| 37 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 emirate | det |
| 38 | emirate | emirate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 rulers | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | present · passive | Half | by the rulers of the constituent emirates | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | elect | present · passive | a small percentage of Emirati citizens | the other half | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pick | participle | a small percentage of Emirati citizens not said here | by the rulers of each emirate; hand compound | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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