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title: The Ottomans held a passive role in Qatar's politics from the 1890s… — Doha · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ottomans held a passive role in Qatar's politics from the 1890s onward until fully relinquishing control during the beginning of the First World War. Who acts: Ottomans. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Doha» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Doha, sentence 77

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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 Ottomans held a passive role in Qatar's politics from the 1890s onward until fully relinquishing control during the beginning of the First World War.

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**Who acts:** Ottomans · **What happens:** hold, relinquish, begin · **To what, where:** passive role, politics, control, First World War

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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 (Ottomans), 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:77
# text = The Ottomans held a passive role in Qatar's politics from the 1890s onward until fully relinquishing control during the beginning of the First World War.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ottomans	Ottoman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	passive	passive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Qatar	Qatar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	politics	politics	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	nmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	1890s	1890	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
14	onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
15	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	relinquishing	relinquish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
18	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	during	during	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	First	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	26	amod	_	_
25	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past | the Ottomans | a passive role |  | Qatar's politics from the 1890s |  | onward *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent role=Theme in politics=Location |
| 2 | **relinquish** | gerund | the Ottomans *not said here* | control |  |  | during the beginning of the First World War | fully *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent control=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** |  |  | the First World War |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=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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