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title: The Al Sabah ruling family adhere to the Maliki school of Sunni Islam. — Kuwait · tree and pragmatics
description: The Al Sabah ruling family adhere to the Maliki school of Sunni Islam. Who acts: Al, family. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuwait» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kuwait, sentence 318

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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 Al Sabah ruling family adhere to the Maliki school of Sunni Islam.

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**Who acts:** Al, family · **What happens:** rule, adhere · **To what, where:** Al

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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 (Al, family), 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:318
# text = The Al Sabah ruling family adhere to the Maliki school of Sunni Islam.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	Sabah	Sabah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	ruling	rule	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	adhere	adhere	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Maliki	Maliki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Sunni	Sunni	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Islam	Islam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | gerund | the Al *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **adhere** | infinitive | family |  |  |  |  | to the Maliki school of Sunni Islam | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to school=Co-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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