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title: In April 1913, the Ottomans agreed to a British request to withdraw… — Doha · tree and pragmatics
description: In April 1913, the Ottomans agreed to a British request to withdraw all their troops from Qatar. Who acts: Ottomans. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Doha» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Doha, sentence 99

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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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In April 1913, the Ottomans agreed to a British request to withdraw all their troops from Qatar.

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**Who acts:** Ottomans · **What happens:** agree, withdraw · **To what, where:** troops, Qatar

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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:99
# text = In April 1913, the Ottomans agreed to a British request to withdraw all their troops from Qatar.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	1913	1913	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Ottomans	Ottoman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	withdraw	withdraw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	13	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Qatar	Qatar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | the Ottomans |  |  |  | april | to a British request | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **withdraw** | to-infinitive | the Ottomans *not said here* | Ottomans's troops |  | Qatar |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent troops=Theme from qatar=Initial\_Location |

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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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