---
title: This gave Britain exclusive access and trade with Kuwait, while deny… — Kuwait · tree and pragmatics
description: This gave Britain exclusive access and trade with Kuwait, while denying Ottoman and Germany provinces to the north a port on the Persian Gulf. Who acts: This. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuwait» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kuwait/78/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Kuwait](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kuwait/) / 78

# Kuwait, sentence 78

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
This gave Britain exclusive access and trade with Kuwait, while denying Ottoman and Germany provinces to the north a port on the Persian Gulf.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** give, deny · **To what, where:** exclusive access, Britain, Ottoman provinces

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (This), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:78
# text = This gave Britain exclusive access and trade with Kuwait, while denying Ottoman and Germany provinces to the north a port on the Persian Gulf.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	_
4	exclusive	exclusive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	access	access	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Kuwait	Kuwait	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	denying	deny	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
13	Ottoman	Ottoman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	provinces	province	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Gulf	Gulf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | This | exclusive access and trade with Kuwait | Britain |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent britain=Recipient access=Theme |
| 2 | **deny** | gerund | This *not said here* | Ottoman provinces |  |  |  | to the north; a port *obj* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent province=Theme port=Eventuality |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kuwait/77/)
- next →: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kuwait/79/)
- ↑ back to [Kuwait](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kuwait/)