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title: Kuwait is the only GCC country besides Bahrain to have a local Chris… — Kuwait · tree and pragmatics
description: Kuwait is the only GCC country besides Bahrain to have a local Christian population who hold citizenship. Who acts: Kuwait, local Christian population. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuwait» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kuwait, sentence 552

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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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Kuwait is the only GCC country besides Bahrain to have a local Christian population who hold citizenship.

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**Who acts:** Kuwait, local Christian population · **What happens:** be, have, hold · **To what, where:** only GCC country, local Christian population, citizenship

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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, local Christian population), 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:552
# text = Kuwait is the only GCC country besides Bahrain to have a local Christian population who hold citizenship.
1	Kuwait	Kuwait	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	GCC	GCC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Bahrain	Bahrain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	citizenship	citizenship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Kuwait | the only GCC country |  |  |  | besides Bahrain | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive |  | a local Christian population |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent population=Patient |
| 3 | **hold** | present | a local Christian population | citizenship |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent citizenship=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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