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title: During the 1991 Kuwaiti oil fires, more than 500 oil lakes were crea… — Kuwait · tree and pragmatics
description: During the 1991 Kuwaiti oil fires, more than 500 oil lakes were created covering a combined surface area of about 35.7 km2. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuwait» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kuwait, sentence 236

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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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During the 1991 Kuwaiti oil fires, more than 500 oil lakes were created covering a combined surface area of about 35.7 km2.

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**What happens:** create, cover, combine · **To what, where:** 500 oil lakes, combined surface area

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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: 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:236
# text = During the 1991 Kuwaiti oil fires, more than 500 oil lakes were created covering a combined surface area of about 35.7 km2.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	1991	1991	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
4	Kuwaiti	kuwaiti	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	10	advmod	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	created	create	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	combined	combine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
18	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	35.7	35.7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nmod	_	_
23	km2	km2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **create** | past · passive |  | 500 oil lakes |  |  | during the 1991 Kuwaiti oil fires |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cover** | gerund |  | a combined surface area of 35.7 |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme area=Destination |
| 3 | **combine** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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