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title: In the early 1980s, Kuwait experienced a major economic crisis after… — Kuwait City · tree and pragmatics
description: In the early 1980s, Kuwait experienced a major economic crisis after the Souk Al-Manakh stock market crash and decrease in oil price. Who acts: Kuwait. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuwait City» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kuwait City, sentence 55

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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 the early 1980s, Kuwait experienced a major economic crisis after the Souk Al-Manakh stock market crash and decrease in oil price.

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**Who acts:** Kuwait · **What happens:** experience · **To what, where:** major economic crisis, early 1980s

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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:55
# text = In the early 1980s, Kuwait experienced a major economic crisis after the Souk Al-Manakh stock market crash and decrease in oil price.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	1980s	1980s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Kuwait	Kuwait	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	experienced	experience	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	crisis	crisis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
14	Souk	Souk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
15	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Manakh	manakh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	stock	stock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	crash	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	decrease	decrease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **experience** | past | Kuwait | a major economic crisis |  | the early 1980s | after the Manakh market crash  Souk and decrease in oil price |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crisis=Stimulus |

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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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