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title: Arabic plays an important role in political life, as, according to B… — Bahrain · tree and pragmatics
description: Arabic plays an important role in political life, as, according to Bahrain's constitution, an MP must be fluent in Arabic to stand for parliament. Who acts: Arabic, MP, Bahrain. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bahrain» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bahrain, sentence 534

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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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Arabic plays an important role in political life, as, according to Bahrain's constitution, an MP must be fluent in Arabic to stand for parliament.

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**Who acts:** Arabic, MP, Bahrain · **What happens:** play, accord, be, stand, constitute · **To what, where:** important role, political life, Arabic

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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 (Arabic, MP, Bahrain), 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:534
# text = Arabic plays an important role in political life, as, according to Bahrain's constitution, an MP must be fluent in Arabic to stand for parliament.
1	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	case	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	Bahrain	Bahrain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	MP	mp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	fluent	fluent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	parataxis	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present | Arabic | a important role |  | political life |  | Bahrain's constitution *parataxis* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=Theme |
| 2 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | must | a MP |  |  | Arabic |  | fluent *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **stand** | to-infinitive | a MP *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for parliament | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for parliament=Attribute |
| 5 | **constitute** |  | Bahrain |  |  |  |  |  | nom constitution «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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