--- title: On 5 January 1936, Petroleum Development Trucial Coast Ltd (PDTC), a… — Abu Dhabi · tree and pragmatics description: On 5 January 1936, Petroleum Development Trucial Coast Ltd (PDTC), an associate company of the Iraq Petroleum Company, entered into a concession agreement with the ruler, Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan, to explore for oil. Who acts: Petroleum Coast Ltd. 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On 5 January 1936, Petroleum Development Trucial Coast Ltd (PDTC), an associate company of the Iraq Petroleum Company, entered into a concession agreement with the ruler, Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan, to explore for oil. **Who acts:** Petroleum Coast Ltd · **What happens:** enter, explore · **To what, where:** 5 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 (Petroleum Coast Ltd), 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:38 # text = On 5 January 1936, Petroleum Development Trucial Coast Ltd (PDTC), an associate company of the Iraq Petroleum Company, entered into a concession agreement with the ruler, Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan, to explore for oil. 1 On on ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 obl _ _ 3 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:unmarked _ _ 4 1936 1936 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 Petroleum Petroleum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 7 Development Development PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 8 Trucial Trucial PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 9 Coast Coast PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Ltd Ltd PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 PDTC PDTC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 associate associate NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 Iraq Iraq PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 21 Petroleum Petroleum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 Company Company PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 24 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 25 into into ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 concession concession NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 agreement agreement NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 ruler ruler NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 Sheikh Sheikh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 Shakhbut Shakhbut PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 35 bin Bin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 flat _ _ 36 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 flat _ _ 37 Al Al PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 flat _ _ 38 Nahyan Nahyan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 explore explore VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 42 for for ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **enter** | past | Petroleum Coast Ltd | | | 5 1936 January | | into a concession agreement with the ruler | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into agreement=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **explore** | to-infinitive | Petroleum Coast Ltd *not said here* | | | | | for oil | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for oil=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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Abu_Dhabi/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Abu_Dhabi/39/) - ↑ back to [Abu Dhabi](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Abu_Dhabi/)