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title: In 1981, the Kuwaiti government gerrymandered electoral districts in… — Kuwait · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1981, the Kuwaiti government gerrymandered electoral districts in favour of the Islamists. Who acts: Kuwaiti government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuwait» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kuwait, sentence 167

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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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In 1981, the Kuwaiti government gerrymandered electoral districts in favour of the Islamists.

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**Who acts:** Kuwaiti government · **What happens:** gerrymander, favour · **To what, where:** electoral districts, 1981, Islamists

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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 (Kuwaiti government), 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:167
# text = In 1981, the Kuwaiti government gerrymandered electoral districts in favour of the Islamists.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1981	1981	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Kuwaiti	kuwaiti	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gerrymandered	gerrymander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	electoral	electoral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	districts	district	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Islamists	Islamist	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gerrymander** | past | the Kuwaiti government | electoral districts |  | 1981 |  | in favour of the Islamists | tree rules |
| 2 | **favour** |  |  | the Islamists |  |  |  |  | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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