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title: Qatar, however, was not asked to fly the prescribed Trucial flag. — Doha · tree and pragmatics
description: Qatar, however, was not asked to fly the prescribed Trucial flag. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Doha» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Doha, sentence 32

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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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Qatar, however, was not asked to fly the prescribed Trucial flag.

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**What happens:** not ask, fly, prescribe · **To what, where:** prescribed Trucial flag

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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: 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:32
# text = Qatar, however, was not asked to fly the prescribed Trucial flag.
1	Qatar	Qatar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	however	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	prescribed	prescribe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
12	Trucial	trucial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | Qatar *vocative*; however *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fly** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the prescribed Trucial flag |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flag=Theme |
| 3 | **prescribe** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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