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title: The alternating system was resumed when Sheikh Sabah Al-Salim named… — Kuwait · tree and pragmatics
description: The alternating system was resumed when Sheikh Sabah Al-Salim named Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmed of the Jabir branch as his crown prince, eventually ruling as Emir for 29 years from 1977 to 2006. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuwait» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kuwait, sentence 322

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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 alternating system was resumed when Sheikh Sabah Al-Salim named Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmed of the Jabir branch as his crown prince, eventually ruling as Emir for 29 years from 1977 to 2006.

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**What happens:** resume, name, rule · **To what, where:** alternating system, Sheikh Sabah

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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:322
# text = The alternating system was resumed when Sheikh Sabah Al-Salim named Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmed of the Jabir branch as his crown prince, eventually ruling as Emir for 29 years from 1977 to 2006.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	alternating	alternating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	resumed	resume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
7	Sheikh	Sheikh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Sabah	Sabah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Salim	Salim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
13	Sheikh	Sheikh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Jaber	Jaber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	_
15	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Jabir	Jabir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	eventually	eventually	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	ruling	rule	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Emir	Emir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	29	29	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	1977	1977	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nmod	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	2006	2006	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resume** | past · passive |  | the alternating system |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **name** | participle · passive |  | Sheikh Sabah and Salim |  |  |  | as Sabah's crown prince; Sheikh Jaber *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as prince=Attribute |
| 3 | **rule** | gerund |  |  |  |  | year | as Emir; eventually *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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