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title: Abu Dhabi is known in the region for its greenery; the former desert… — Abu Dhabi · tree and pragmatics
description: Abu Dhabi is known in the region for its greenery; the former desert strip today includes numerous parks and gardens. Who acts: former desert strip. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Abu Dhabi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Abu Dhabi, sentence 188

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From Wikipedia, [«Abu Dhabi»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Dhabi), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Abu Dhabi is known in the region for its greenery; the former desert strip today includes numerous parks and gardens.

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**Who acts:** former desert strip · **What happens:** know, include · **To what, where:** Abu, region, numerous parks

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Abu Dhabi». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (former desert strip), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Abu_Dhabi:188
# text = Abu Dhabi is known in the region for its greenery; the former desert strip today includes numerous parks and gardens.
1	Abu	Abu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	Dhabi	Dhabi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	greenery	greenery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	strip	strip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	includes	include	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	parks	park	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present · passive |  | Abu |  | the region for Corniche's greenery |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **include** | present | the former desert strip | numerous parks and gardens |  |  | today |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent park=Theme |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Abu Dhabi», 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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