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title: Originally consisting of a fort and twenty houses, within two years… — Abu Dhabi · tree and pragmatics
description: Originally consisting of a fort and twenty houses, within two years the town consisted of a settlement of some 400 houses. Who acts: town. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Abu Dhabi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Abu Dhabi, sentence 24

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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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Originally consisting of a fort and twenty houses, within two years the town consisted of a settlement of some 400 houses.

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**Who acts:** town · **What happens:** consist

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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 (town), 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:24
# text = Originally consisting of a fort and twenty houses, within two years the town consisted of a settlement of some 400 houses.
1	Originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	consisting	consist	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fort	fort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	within	within	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	consisted	consist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
21	400	400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consist** | gerund | the town *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of a fort and twenty houses; originally *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **consist** | past | the town |  |  |  | year | of a settlement of some 400 houses | tree rules |

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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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