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title: Before Mary Bruins Allison visited Kuwait in 1934, Kuwait had alread… — Kuwait · tree and pragmatics
description: Before Mary Bruins Allison visited Kuwait in 1934, Kuwait had already lost its prominence in long-distance trade. Who acts: Mary, Kuwait. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuwait» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kuwait, sentence 111

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From Wikipedia, [«Kuwait»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwait), 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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Before Mary Bruins Allison visited Kuwait in 1934, Kuwait had already lost its prominence in long-distance trade.

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**Who acts:** Mary, Kuwait · **What happens:** visit, lose · **To what, where:** Kuwait, 1934, prominence, distance trade

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kuwait». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mary, Kuwait), 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:Kuwait:111
# text = Before Mary Bruins Allison visited Kuwait in 1934, Kuwait had already lost its prominence in long-distance trade.
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Bruins	Bruins	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Allison	Allison	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
6	Kuwait	Kuwait	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1934	1934	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	Kuwait	Kuwait	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	already	already	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	prominence	prominence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | past | Mary | Kuwait |  | 1934 |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kuwait=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **lose** | past · perfect | Kuwait | blockade's prominence |  | distance trade |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prominence=Eventuality |

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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, «Kuwait», 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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