United Arab Emirates, sentence 331
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.
Immigrant workers are often subject to harsh forms of the law within the country, and are often victims of arbitrary detention or torture within the country.
Who acts: Immigrant workers · What happens: be, form · To what, where: victims, 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 (Immigrant workers), 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 | Immigrant | immigrant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 workers | compound |
| 2 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 subject | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 subject | cop |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 subject | advmod |
| 5 | subject | subject | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 forms | case |
| 7 | harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 forms | amod |
| 8 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 subject | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 law | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 law | det |
| 11 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forms | nmod |
| 12 | within | within | ADP | _ | 14 country | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 country | det |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 law | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 victims | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 victims | cc |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 victims | cop |
| 18 | often | often | ADV | _ | 19 victims | advmod |
| 19 | victims | victim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 subject | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 detention | case |
| 21 | arbitrary | arbitrary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 detention | amod |
| 22 | detention | detention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 victims | nmod |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 torture | cc |
| 24 | torture | torture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 detention | conj |
| 25 | within | within | ADP | _ | 27 country | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 country | det |
| 27 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 torture | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 subject | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Immigrant workers | to harsh forms of the law within the country; often, subject property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | victims | of arbitrary detention or torture within the country; often property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | form | the law within the country | nom form «communication 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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