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title: Sometime in the mid-1700s, the Bani Utbah settled in Kuwait City. — Kuwait · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometime in the mid-1700s, the Bani Utbah settled in Kuwait City. Who acts: Bani Utbah. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuwait» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kuwait, sentence 61

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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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Sometime in the mid-1700s, the Bani Utbah settled in Kuwait City.

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**Who acts:** Bani Utbah · **What happens:** settle · **To what, where:** mid-1700s

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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 (Bani Utbah), 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:61
# text = Sometime in the mid-1700s, the Bani Utbah settled in Kuwait City.
1	Sometime	sometime	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mid-1700s	mid-1700	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Bani	Bani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Utbah	Utbah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Kuwait	Kuwait	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **settle** | past | the Bani Utbah |  |  | the mid-1700s |  | in Kuwait City; sometime *property* | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mid-1700=Location |

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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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