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title: This was the first time Palestinian guerrillas struck in Kuwait as t… — Kuwait · tree and pragmatics
description: This was the first time Palestinian guerrillas struck in Kuwait as the Al Sabah ruling family, headed by Sheikh Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, funded the Palestinian resistance movement. Who acts: This, Palestinian guerrillas. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuwait» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kuwait, sentence 161

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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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This was the first time Palestinian guerrillas struck in Kuwait as the Al Sabah ruling family, headed by Sheikh Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, funded the Palestinian resistance movement.

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**Who acts:** This, Palestinian guerrillas · **What happens:** be, strike, rule, head, fund · **To what, where:** first time, Kuwait, Al ruling family, Palestinian resistance movement

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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 (This, Palestinian guerrillas), 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:161
# text = This was the first time Palestinian guerrillas struck in Kuwait as the Al Sabah ruling family, headed by Sheikh Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, funded the Palestinian resistance movement.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	Palestinian	Palestinian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	guerrillas	guerrilla	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Kuwait	Kuwait	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
14	Sabah	Sabah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	ruling	rule	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	headed	head	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	Sheikh	Sheikh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Sabah	Sabah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl:agent	_	_
22	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Salim	Salim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
25	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Sabah	Sabah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	funded	fund	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	Palestinian	Palestinian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	resistance	resistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | This | the first time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **strike** | past | Palestinian guerrillas | the first time *not said here* |  | Kuwait |  | as the Al ruling family | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Patient |
| 3 | **rule** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **head** | participle |  | the Al ruling family *not said here* |  |  |  | Sheikh Sabah *obl:agent* | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fund** | past | Palestinian guerrillas *not said here* | the Palestinian resistance movement |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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