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title: as of 2018 the metropolitan area had roughly three million inhabitan… — Kuwait City · tree and pragmatics
description: as of 2018 the metropolitan area had roughly three million inhabitants (more than 70% of the country's population). Who acts: metropolitan area. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuwait City» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kuwait City, sentence 3

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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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as of 2018 the metropolitan area had roughly three million inhabitants (more than 70% of the country's population).

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**Who acts:** metropolitan area · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** million inhabitants

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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 (metropolitan area), 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:3
# text = as of 2018 the metropolitan area had roughly three million inhabitants (more than 70% of the country's population).
1	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	3	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	2018	2018	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	metropolitan	metropolitan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	compound	_	_
10	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	15	advmod	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	70	70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the metropolitan area | million inhabitants |  |  |  | as 2018 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inhabitant=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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