--- title: Abu Dhabi introduced four toll gates in 2021 on all bridges (Sheikh… — Abu Dhabi · tree and pragmatics description: Abu Dhabi introduced four toll gates in 2021 on all bridges (Sheikh Zayed Bridge, Maqtaa Bridge, Mussafah Bridge, and Sheikh Khalifa Bridge) entering the main Abu Dhabi island that only operate during peak hours, and by year-end had over 1.8 million registered cars in the system. 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Abu Dhabi introduced four toll gates in 2021 on all bridges (Sheikh Zayed Bridge, Maqtaa Bridge, Mussafah Bridge, and Sheikh Khalifa Bridge) entering the main Abu Dhabi island that only operate during peak hours, and by year-end had over 1.8 million registered cars in the system. **Who acts:** Abu, Khalifa Bridge, 1.8 million · **What happens:** introduce, enter, operate, have over, register · **To what, where:** four toll gates, 2021, main Abu island, cars, system 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 (Abu, Khalifa Bridge, 1.8 million), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Abu_Dhabi:272 # text = Abu Dhabi introduced four toll gates in 2021 on all bridges (Sheikh Zayed Bridge, Maqtaa Bridge, Mussafah Bridge, and Sheikh Khalifa Bridge) entering the main Abu Dhabi island that only operate during peak hours, and by year-end had over 1.8 million registered cars in the system. 1 Abu Abu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Dhabi Dhabi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 introduced introduce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 5 toll toll NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 gates gate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 2021 2021 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 11 det _ _ 11 bridges bridge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 Sheikh Sheikh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 Zayed Zayed PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 Bridge Bridge PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 Maqtaa Maqtaa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 Bridge Bridge PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 Mussafah Mussafah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 Bridge Bridge PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 Sheikh Sheikh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 Khalifa Khalifa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 Bridge Bridge PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 28 entering enter VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 30 main main ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 31 Abu Abu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 32 Dhabi Dhabi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 flat _ _ 33 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 obj _ _ 35 only only ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 operate operate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 37 during during ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 peak peak NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 42 by by ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 44 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ _ 46 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 47 over over ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 48 1.8 1.8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 49 compound _ _ 49 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 50 nsubj _ _ 50 registered register VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 ccomp _ _ 51 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 obj _ _ 52 in in ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 system system NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **introduce** | past | Abu | four toll gates | | 2021 | | on all bridges Sheikh Zayed and Maqtaa Bridge and Mussafah Bridge | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Patient | | 2 | **enter** | gerund | Khalifa Bridge | the main Abu island | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme island=Destination | | 3 | **operate** | present | | the main Abu island | | | hour | | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Theme that=Attribute | | 4 | **have over** | past | | | | | by year end | | tree rules | | 5 | **register** | past | 1.8 million | cars | | the system | | | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=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, «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. - ← previous: [sentence 271](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Abu_Dhabi/271/) - next →: [sentence 273](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Abu_Dhabi/273/) - ↑ back to [Abu Dhabi](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Abu_Dhabi/)