United Arab Emirates, sentence 53

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 following year, Britain and a number of local rulers signed a maritime truce, giving rise to the term Trucial States, which came to define the status of the coastal emirates.

Who acts: following year, term · What happens: follow, sign, give, come, define · To what, where: maritime truce, rise, term, status

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 (following year, term), 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	3 year	det
2	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 year	amod
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 signed	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Britain	punct
5	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 year	appos
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 number	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 number	det
8	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Britain	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 rulers	case
10	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rulers	amod
11	rulers	ruler	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 number	nmod
12	signed	sign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 truce	det
14	maritime	maritime	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 truce	amod
15	truce	truce	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 signed	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 giving	punct
17	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 signed	advcl
18	rise	rise	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 giving	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 term	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 term	det
21	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 giving	obl
22	Trucial	Trucial	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 States	compound
23	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	21 term	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 term	acl:relcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 define	mark
28	define	define	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 came	xcomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 status	det
30	status	status	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 define	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 emirates	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 emirates	det
33	coastal	coastal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 emirates	amod
34	emirates	emirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 status	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 signed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sign	past	the following year	a maritime truce		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent truce=Destination
3	give	gerund	the following year not said here	rise	the term Trucial States	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rise=Theme to term=Recipient
4	come	past	the term Trucial States			tree rules
5	define	to-infinitive	the term Trucial States not said here	the status of the coastal emirates		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent status=Theme

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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «United Arab Emirates», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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United Arab Emirates, sentence 53