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title: Al-Mafraq bridge connects the city to Reem Island and was completed… — Abu Dhabi · tree and pragmatics
description: Al-Mafraq bridge connects the city to Reem Island and was completed in early 2011. Who acts: Al bridge. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Abu Dhabi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Abu Dhabi, sentence 50

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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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Al-Mafraq bridge connects the city to Reem Island and was completed in early 2011.

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**Who acts:** Al bridge · **What happens:** connect, complete · **To what, where:** city, early 2011

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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 (Al bridge), 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:50
# text = Al-Mafraq bridge connects the city to Reem Island and was completed in early 2011.
1	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Mafraq	Mafraq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	connects	connect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Reem	Reem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	completed	complete	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	2011	2011	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **connect** | present | Al bridge | the city |  |  |  | to Reem Island | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent city=Patient to island=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **complete** | past · passive | Al bridge *not said here* |  |  | early 2011 |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING» |

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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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