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title: Following a period of Arab rule, Bahrain was ruled by the Portuguese… — Bahrain · tree and pragmatics
description: Following a period of Arab rule, Bahrain was ruled by the Portuguese Empire from 1521 until 1602, when they were expelled by Shah Abbas the Great of the Safavid Iran. Who acts: Portuguese Empire, Shah. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bahrain» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bahrain, sentence 10

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From Wikipedia, [«Bahrain»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahrain), 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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Following a period of Arab rule, Bahrain was ruled by the Portuguese Empire from 1521 until 1602, when they were expelled by Shah Abbas the Great of the Safavid Iran.

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**Who acts:** Portuguese Empire, Shah · **What happens:** follow, rule, expel · **To what, where:** Bahrain, 1521, capital

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bahrain». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Portuguese Empire, Shah), 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:Bahrain:10
# text = Following a period of Arab rule, Bahrain was ruled by the Portuguese Empire from 1521 until 1602, when they were expelled by Shah Abbas the Great of the Safavid Iran.
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	Bahrain	Bahrain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	ruled	rule	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1521	1521	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
17	until	until	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1602	1602	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	expelled	expel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Shah	Shah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	Abbas	Abbas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Safavid	Safavid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Iran	Iran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rule** | past · passive | the Portuguese Empire | Bahrain |  | 1521 until 1602 |  | follow a period of Arab rule | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result |
| 3 | **expel** | past · passive | Shah and the Great of the Safavid Iran | capital |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |

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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, «Bahrain», 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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