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title: In the 19th century, Kuwait became significant in the horse trade, w… — Kuwait · tree and pragmatics
description: In the 19th century, Kuwait became significant in the horse trade, with regular shipments in sailing vessels. Who acts: Kuwait, regular shipments. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuwait» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kuwait, sentence 75

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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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In the 19th century, Kuwait became significant in the horse trade, with regular shipments in sailing vessels.

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**Who acts:** Kuwait, regular shipments · **What happens:** become, sail · **To what, where:** horse trade, vessels

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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, regular shipments), 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:75
# text = In the 19th century, Kuwait became significant in the horse trade, with regular shipments in sailing vessels.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Kuwait	Kuwait	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	shipments	shipment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	appos	_	_
17	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
19	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Kuwait |  |  |  | century | in the horse trade *result*; significant *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in trade=Result |
| 2 | **sail** | gerund | regular shipments *not said here* | vessels |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme vessel=Trajectory |

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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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