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title: Shortly after Qatar gained independence, many of the districts of ol… — Doha · tree and pragmatics
description: Shortly after Qatar gained independence, many of the districts of old Doha including Al Najada, Al Asmakh and Old Al Hitmi faced gradual decline and as a result, much of their historical architecture has been demolished. Who acts: Qatar, many. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Doha» with its dependency tre
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# Doha, sentence 212

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From Wikipedia, [«Doha»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doha), 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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Shortly after Qatar gained independence, many of the districts of old Doha including Al Najada, Al Asmakh and Old Al Hitmi faced gradual decline and as a result, much of their historical architecture has been demolished.

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**Who acts:** Qatar, many · **What happens:** gain, include, face, demolish · **To what, where:** independence, gradual decline, historical architecture

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Doha». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Qatar, many), 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:Doha:212
# text = Shortly after Qatar gained independence, many of the districts of old Doha including Al Najada, Al Asmakh and Old Al Hitmi faced gradual decline and as a result, much of their historical architecture has been demolished.
1	Shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	Qatar	Qatar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	districts	district	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Doha	Doha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	including	include	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	case	_	_
15	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	Najada	Najada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	Asmakh	Asmakh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
23	Hitmi	Hitmi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
24	faced	face	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
25	gradual	gradual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	decline	decline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	appos	_	_
33	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	architecture	architecture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	demolished	demolish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gain** | past | Qatar | independence |  |  |  | shortly *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Theme |
| 2 | **include** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **face** | past | many of the districts of old Doha include Al and Al and Old Al | gradual decline and a result |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme decline=Destination |
| 4 | **demolish** | present · perfect · passive |  | districts's historical architecture |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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, «Doha», 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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