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title: Al-Suwaidi obliged the British request in February 1840 and also arr… — Doha · tree and pragmatics
description: Al-Suwaidi obliged the British request in February 1840 and also arrested the pirate Jasim bin Jabir and his associates. Who acts: Al. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Doha» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Doha, sentence 48

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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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Al-Suwaidi obliged the British request in February 1840 and also arrested the pirate Jasim bin Jabir and his associates.

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**Who acts:** Al · **What happens:** oblige, arrest · **To what, where:** British request, pirate

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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 (Al), 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:48
# text = Al-Suwaidi obliged the British request in February 1840 and also arrested the pirate Jasim bin Jabir and his associates.
1	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Suwaidi	Suwaidi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	1840	1840	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	also	also	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	arrested	arrest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	pirate	pirate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	Jasim	Jasim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	Jabir	Jabir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	associates	associate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **oblige** | past | Al | the British request |  |  | february |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Patient |
| 2 | **arrest** | past | Al *not said here* | the pirate |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pirate=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, «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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