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title: Designed by architect Hadi Simaan and AREP and engineer Ove Arup and… — Doha · tree and pragmatics
description: Designed by architect Hadi Simaan and AREP and engineer Ove Arup and Partners, the tower served as the focal point for the 15th Asian Games hosted by Qatar in December 2006. Who acts: tower. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Doha» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Doha, sentence 284

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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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Designed by architect Hadi Simaan and AREP and engineer Ove Arup and Partners, the tower served as the focal point for the 15th Asian Games hosted by Qatar in December 2006.

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**Who acts:** tower · **What happens:** design, serve, host · **To what, where:** Asian Games

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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 (tower), 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:284
# text = Designed by architect Hadi Simaan and AREP and engineer Ove Arup and Partners, the tower served as the focal point for the 15th Asian Games hosted by Qatar in December 2006.
1	Designed	design	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	architect	architect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	Hadi	Hadi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	Simaan	Simaan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	AREP	AREP	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	engineer	engineer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	Ove	Ove	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	Arup	Arup	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Partners	partner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	focal	focal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	15th	15th	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	21	nmod	_	_
25	Asian	Asian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	hosted	host	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Qatar	Qatar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl:agent	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	2006	2006	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **design** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by architect and engineer and Partners | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **serve** | past | the tower |  |  |  |  | as the focal point for the 15th  Asian Games | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as point=Attribute |
| 3 | **host** | participle |  | Asian Games *not said here* |  |  | december | Qatar *obl:agent* | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=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, «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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