United Arab Emirates, sentence 44
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 harsh desert environment led to the emergence of the "versatile tribesman", nomadic groups who subsisted due to a variety of economic activities, including animal husbandry, agriculture, and hunting.
Who acts: harsh desert environment, nomadic groups, versatile tribesman · What happens: lead, subsist, emerge
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 (harsh desert environment, nomadic groups, versatile tribesman), 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 | 4 environment | det |
| 2 | harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 environment | amod |
| 3 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 environment | compound |
| 4 | environment | environment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 led | nsubj |
| 5 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 emergence | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 emergence | det |
| 8 | emergence | emergence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 led | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 tribesman | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tribesman | det |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 tribesman | punct |
| 12 | versatile | versatile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tribesman | compound |
| 13 | tribesman | tribesman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 emergence | nmod |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 tribesman | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 groups | punct |
| 16 | nomadic | nomadic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 groups | amod |
| 17 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tribesman | conj |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 subsisted | nsubj |
| 19 | subsisted | subsist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 groups | acl:relcl |
| 20 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 23 variety | case |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 due | fixed |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 variety | det |
| 23 | variety | variety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 subsisted | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 activities | case |
| 25 | economic | economic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 activities | amod |
| 26 | activities | activity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 variety | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 husbandry | punct |
| 28 | including | including | ADP | _ | 30 husbandry | case |
| 29 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 husbandry | compound |
| 30 | husbandry | husbandry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 activities | appos |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 agriculture | punct |
| 32 | agriculture | agriculture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 husbandry | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 hunting | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 hunting | cc |
| 35 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 led | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the harsh desert environment | to the emergence of the versatile tribesman and nomadic groups; hunting conj | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to emergence=Patient | ||||
| 2 | subsist | past | nomadic groups | due a variety of economic activities | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | emerge | the versatile tribesman and nomadic groups | nom emergence «event intransitive»: of=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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