United Arab Emirates, sentence 300
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.
Due to local customs, public shows of affection in certain public places are illegal and could result in deportation, but holding hands is tolerated.
Who acts: holding · What happens: be, result, hold, tolerate, show · To what, where: deportation, hands, affection
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 (holding), 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 | Due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 4 customs | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 Due | fixed |
| 3 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 customs | amod |
| 4 | customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 illegal | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shows | punct |
| 6 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shows | amod |
| 7 | shows | show | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 customs | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 affection | case |
| 9 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shows | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 places | case |
| 11 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 places | amod |
| 12 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 places | amod |
| 13 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 affection | nmod |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 illegal | cop |
| 15 | illegal | illegal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 result | cc |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 result | aux |
| 18 | result | result | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 illegal | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 deportation | case |
| 20 | deportation | deportation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 result | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 tolerated | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 tolerated | cc |
| 23 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 tolerated | csubj:pass |
| 24 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 holding | obj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 tolerated | aux:pass |
| 26 | tolerated | tolerate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 illegal | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 illegal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | due local customs and public shows of affection in certain public places; illegal property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | result | could | deportation | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in deportation=Location | |||||
| 3 | hold | gerund | hands | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tolerate | present · passive | holding | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | |||||
| 5 | show | affection in certain public places | nom show «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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