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title: Pearling had come to play a pivotal commercial role in Doha by the 2… — Doha · tree and pragmatics
description: Pearling had come to play a pivotal commercial role in Doha by the 20th century. Who acts: Pearling. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Doha» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Doha, sentence 78

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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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Pearling had come to play a pivotal commercial role in Doha by the 20th century.

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**Who acts:** Pearling · **What happens:** come, play · **To what, where:** pivotal commercial role, Doha

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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 (Pearling), 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:78
# text = Pearling had come to play a pivotal commercial role in Doha by the 20th century.
1	Pearling	Pearling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	pivotal	pivotal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	commercial	commercial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Doha	Doha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	20th	20th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
15	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · perfect | Pearling |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | to-infinitive | Pearling *not said here* | a pivotal commercial role |  | Doha | century |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=Theme |

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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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