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title: Relations improved with neighbouring Qatar after the border dispute… — Bahrain · tree and pragmatics
description: Relations improved with neighbouring Qatar after the border dispute over the Hawar Islands was resolved by the International Court of Justice in The Hague in 2001. Who acts: International Court. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bahrain» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bahrain, sentence 165

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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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Relations improved with neighbouring Qatar after the border dispute over the Hawar Islands was resolved by the International Court of Justice in The Hague in 2001.

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**Who acts:** International Court · **What happens:** improve, neighbour, resolve · **To what, where:** Relations, Hague

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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 (International Court), 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:165
# text = Relations improved with neighbouring Qatar after the border dispute over the Hawar Islands was resolved by the International Court of Justice in The Hague in 2001.
1	Relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	improved	improve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	Qatar	Qatar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	dispute	dispute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Hawar	Hawar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	International	International	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Justice	Justice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Hague	Hague	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	2001	2001	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **improve** | participle |  | Relations *not said here* |  |  | after the border dispute over the Hawar Islands | with neighbouring Qatar | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with qatar=Instrument |
| 2 | **neighbour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **resolve** | past · passive | the International Court of Justice | Relations |  | the Hague |  | in 2001 | 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, «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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