United Arab Emirates, sentence 290
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.
Sharia courts have exclusive jurisdiction over Muslim family law matters such as marriage, divorce, child custody, and inheritance.
Who acts: Sharia courts · What happens: have, matter · To what, where: exclusive jurisdiction, Muslim family law
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 (Sharia courts), 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 | Sharia | Sharia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 courts | compound |
| 2 | courts | court | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | exclusive | exclusive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 jurisdiction | amod |
| 5 | jurisdiction | jurisdiction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 law | case |
| 7 | Muslim | Muslim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 law | amod |
| 8 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 law | compound |
| 9 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 matters | obl |
| 10 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | parataxis |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 13 marriage | case |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 such | fixed |
| 13 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 matters | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 divorce | punct |
| 15 | divorce | divorce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 marriage | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 custody | punct |
| 17 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 custody | compound |
| 18 | custody | custody | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 marriage | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 inheritance | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 inheritance | cc |
| 21 | inheritance | inheritance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 marriage | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Sharia courts | exclusive jurisdiction | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jurisdiction=Patient | ||||
| 2 | matter | present | Muslim family law | such marriage and divorce and child custody and inheritance | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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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