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title: This massive growth attracted many foreign workers, especially from… — Kuwait City · tree and pragmatics
description: This massive growth attracted many foreign workers, especially from Jordan, Egypt and India and helped finance the development of a new master plan, which the state approved in 1952. Who acts: massive growth, new master plan. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuwait City» with its dependency tree and pragm
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# Kuwait City, sentence 37

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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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This massive growth attracted many foreign workers, especially from Jordan, Egypt and India and helped finance the development of a new master plan, which the state approved in 1952.

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**Who acts:** massive growth, new master plan · **What happens:** attract, help, finance, state, approve, develop · **To what, where:** many foreign workers, Jordan, development, state, 1952, new master plan

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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 (massive growth, new master plan), 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:37
# text = This massive growth attracted many foreign workers, especially from Jordan, Egypt and India and helped finance the development of a new master plan, which the state approved in 1952.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	attracted	attract	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	finance	finance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
30	approved	approve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	1952	1952	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attract** | past | this massive growth | many foreign workers |  | Jordan and Egypt and India |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worker=Patient |
| 2 | **help** | past | this massive growth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **finance** | infinitive | this massive growth *not said here* | the development of a new master plan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **state** *speech: other* |  | a new master plan |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **approve** | participle |  | the state *not said here* |  | 1952 |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **develop** |  |  | a new master plan |  |  |  |  | nom development «act 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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