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title: In June 1961, Kuwait became independent with the end of the British… — Kuwait City · tree and pragmatics
description: In June 1961, Kuwait became independent with the end of the British protectorate and the sheikh Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah became an Emir. Who acts: Kuwait. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuwait City» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kuwait City, sentence 38

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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 June 1961, Kuwait became independent with the end of the British protectorate and the sheikh Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah became an Emir.

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**Who acts:** Kuwait · **What happens:** become

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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 (Kuwait), 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:38
# text = In June 1961, Kuwait became independent with the end of the British protectorate and the sheikh Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah became an Emir.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	1961	1961	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	Kuwait	Kuwait	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	protectorate	protectorate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sheikh	sheikh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	Abdullah	Abdullah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
19	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Salim	Salim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Sabah	Sabah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
25	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Emir	Emir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Kuwait |  |  |  | june | independent *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **become** | past | Kuwait *not said here* |  |  |  | with the end of the British protectorate and the sheikh | a Emir *xcomp* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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