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title: In 1937, Freya Stark wrote about the extent of poverty in Kuwait at… — Kuwait City · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1937, Freya Stark wrote about the extent of poverty in Kuwait at the time: Who acts: Freya. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuwait City» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kuwait City, sentence 28

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From Wikipedia, [«Kuwait City»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwait_City), 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 1937, Freya Stark wrote about the extent of poverty in Kuwait at the time:

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**Who acts:** Freya · **What happens:** write, extend · **To what, where:** 1937, poverty

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kuwait City». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Freya), 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_City:28
# text = In 1937, Freya Stark wrote about the extent of poverty in Kuwait at the time:
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1937	1937	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Freya	Freya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Stark	Stark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Kuwait	Kuwait	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | Freya |  |  | 1937 |  | about the extent of poverty in Kuwait at the time | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about extent=Topic |
| 2 | **extend** |  |  | poverty in Kuwait at the time |  |  |  |  | nom extent «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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 City», 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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