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title: The same year, an agreement known as the General Maritime Treaty was… — Doha · tree and pragmatics
description: The same year, an agreement known as the General Maritime Treaty was signed between the East India Company and the sheikhs of several Persian Gulf settlements (some of which were later known as the Trucial Coast). Who acts: East India Company. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Doha» with its dependency tre
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# Doha, sentence 29

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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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The same year, an agreement known as the General Maritime Treaty was signed between the East India Company and the sheikhs of several Persian Gulf settlements (some of which were later known as the Trucial Coast).

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**Who acts:** East India Company · **What happens:** know, sign · **To what, where:** agreement, some

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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 (East India Company), 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:29
# text = The same year, an agreement known as the General Maritime Treaty was signed between the East India Company and the sheikhs of several Persian Gulf settlements (some of which were later known as the Trucial Coast).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:desc	_	_
11	Maritime	Maritime	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Treaty	Treaty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	signed	sign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	between	between	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Company	Company	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl:agent	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sheikhs	sheikh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Gulf	Gulf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	settlements	settlement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nmod	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
33	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	34	advmod	_	_
34	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl:relcl	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	Trucial	Trucial	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	Coast	Coast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  | a agreement *not said here* |  |  |  | as the Maritime Treaty | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as treaty=Attribute |
| 2 | **sign** | past · passive | the East India Company and the sheikhs of several Gulf settlements |  |  |  | year |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **know** | past · passive |  | some |  |  |  | as the Trucial Coast; late *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as coast=Attribute |

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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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