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title: The theft and removal of the Black Stone caused it to break into sev… — Bahrain · tree and pragmatics
description: The theft and removal of the Black Stone caused it to break into seven pieces. Who acts: theft, Stone. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bahrain» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bahrain, sentence 78

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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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The theft and removal of the Black Stone caused it to break into seven pieces.

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**Who acts:** theft, Stone · **What happens:** cause, break, remove · **To what, where:** Stone, seven pieces, Black Stone

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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 (theft, Stone), 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:78
# text = The theft and removal of the Black Stone caused it to break into seven pieces.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	theft	theft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	removal	removal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Stone	Stone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | past | the theft and removal of the Black Stone | Stone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **break** | to-infinitive | Stone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into seven pieces *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into piece=Result |
| 3 | **remove** |  |  | the Black Stone |  |  |  |  | nom removal «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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