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title: The Bani Yas, the tribe from which the Al Nahyan family are drawn, w… — Abu Dhabi · tree and pragmatics
description: The Bani Yas, the tribe from which the Al Nahyan family are drawn, was originally settled in the Liwa Oasis in the Emirate's western region. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Abu Dhabi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Abu Dhabi, sentence 19

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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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The Bani Yas, the tribe from which the Al Nahyan family are drawn, was originally settled in the Liwa Oasis in the Emirate's western region.

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**What happens:** draw, settle · **To what, where:** Al family, tribe, Bani Yas, Liwa Oasis

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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: 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:19
# text = The Bani Yas, the tribe from which the Al Nahyan family are drawn, was originally settled in the Liwa Oasis in the Emirate's western region.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Bani	Bani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Yas	Yas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	Nahyan	Nahyan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Liwa	Liwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Oasis	Oasis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Emirate	Emirate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | present · passive |  | the Al family |  | the tribe |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from which=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **settle** | past · passive |  | the Bani Yas |  | the Liwa Oasis |  | in the Emirate's western region; originally *property* | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in oasis=Location |

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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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