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title: Despite its relatively small territory, Kuwait has proven crude oil… — Kuwait · tree and pragmatics
description: Despite its relatively small territory, Kuwait has proven crude oil reserves of 104 billion barrels, estimated to be 10% of the world's reserves. Who acts: Kuwait. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuwait» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kuwait, sentence 414

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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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Despite its relatively small territory, Kuwait has proven crude oil reserves of 104 billion barrels, estimated to be 10% of the world's reserves.

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**Who acts:** Kuwait · **What happens:** prove, estimate · **To what, where:** crude oil reserves

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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 (Kuwait), 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:414
# text = Despite its relatively small territory, Kuwait has proven crude oil reserves of 104 billion barrels, estimated to be 10% of the world's reserves.
1	Despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	relatively	relatively	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Kuwait	Kuwait	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	proven	prove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	crude	crude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	reserves	reserve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	104	104	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	_
15	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	barrels	barrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	estimated	estimate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
21	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	reserves	reserve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prove** | present · perfect | Kuwait | crude oil reserves of billion barrels |  |  |  | despite fact's small territory | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reserve=Theme |
| 2 | **estimate** | participle | Kuwait *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V how S»: 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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