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title: The Emir appoints the prime minister, who in turn chooses the cabine… — Kuwait · tree and pragmatics
description: The Emir appoints the prime minister, who in turn chooses the cabinet of ministers comprising the government. Who acts: Emir, prime minister, ministers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuwait» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kuwait, sentence 297

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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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The Emir appoints the prime minister, who in turn chooses the cabinet of ministers comprising the government.

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**Who acts:** Emir, prime minister, ministers · **What happens:** appoint, choose, comprise · **To what, where:** prime minister, cabinet, turn, government

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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 (Emir, prime minister, ministers), 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:297
# text = The Emir appoints the prime minister, who in turn chooses the cabinet of ministers comprising the government.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Emir	Emir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	appoints	appoint	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	prime	prime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
11	chooses	choose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cabinet	cabinet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	ministers	minister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	comprising	comprise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appoint** | present | the Emir | the prime minister |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minister=Theme |
| 2 | **choose** | present | the prime minister | the cabinet of ministers |  | turn |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cabinet=Theme |
| 3 | **comprise** | gerund | ministers *not said here* | the government |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme government=Pivot |

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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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