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title: On 6 February 1974, Palestinian militants occupied the Japanese emba… — Kuwait · tree and pragmatics
description: On 6 February 1974, Palestinian militants occupied the Japanese embassy in Kuwait, taking the ambassador and ten others hostage. Who acts: Palestinian militants. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuwait» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kuwait, sentence 158

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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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On 6 February 1974, Palestinian militants occupied the Japanese embassy in Kuwait, taking the ambassador and ten others hostage.

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**Who acts:** Palestinian militants · **What happens:** occupy, take · **To what, where:** Japanese embassy, Kuwait, ambassador

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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 (Palestinian militants), 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:158
# text = On 6 February 1974, Palestinian militants occupied the Japanese embassy in Kuwait, taking the ambassador and ten others hostage.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	1974	1974	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	Palestinian	Palestinian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	militants	militant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	embassy	embassy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Kuwait	Kuwait	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ambassador	ambassador	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	hostage	hostage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occupy** | past | Palestinian militants | the Japanese embassy |  | Kuwait | february |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus embassy=Experiencer |
| 2 | **take** | gerund | Palestinian militants *not said here* | the ambassador and ten others and hostage |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ambassador=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, «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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