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title: In 1899, ruler Sheikh Mubarak Al Sabah signed an agreement with the… — Kuwait · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1899, ruler Sheikh Mubarak Al Sabah signed an agreement with the British government in India (subsequently known as the Anglo-Kuwaiti Agreement of 1899) making Kuwait a British protectorate. Who acts: Mubarak Al. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuwait» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kuwait, sentence 77

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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 1899, ruler Sheikh Mubarak Al Sabah signed an agreement with the British government in India (subsequently known as the Anglo-Kuwaiti Agreement of 1899) making Kuwait a British protectorate.

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**Who acts:** Mubarak Al · **What happens:** sign, know, make · **To what, where:** agreement, 1899, British protectorate, Kuwait

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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 (Mubarak Al), 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:77
# text = In 1899, ruler Sheikh Mubarak Al Sabah signed an agreement with the British government in India (subsequently known as the Anglo-Kuwaiti Agreement of 1899) making Kuwait a British protectorate.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1899	1899	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Sheikh	Sheikh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Mubarak	Mubarak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Sabah	Sabah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	signed	sign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	subsequently	subsequently	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	Anglo	Anglo	X	AFX	_	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Kuwaiti	kuwaiti	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	1899	1899	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
30	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
31	Kuwait	Kuwait	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	protectorate	protectorate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sign** | past | Mubarak Al | a agreement |  | 1899 |  | with the British government; in India | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent agreement=Theme in 1899=Destination |
| 2 | **know** | participle | Mubarak Al *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the Kuwaiti Agreement of 1899; subsequently *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | Mubarak Al *not said here* | a British protectorate | Kuwait |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset kuwait=Beneficiary protectorate=Product |

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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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