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title: Al Sabah were attracted to Islamists preaching the virtues of a hier… — Kuwait City · tree and pragmatics
description: Al Sabah were attracted to Islamists preaching the virtues of a hierarchical order that included loyalty to the Kuwaiti monarchy. Who acts: hierarchical order. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuwait City» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kuwait City, sentence 63

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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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Al Sabah were attracted to Islamists preaching the virtues of a hierarchical order that included loyalty to the Kuwaiti monarchy.

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**Who acts:** hierarchical order · **What happens:** attract, preach, include · **To what, where:** Al, Islamists, virtues, loyalty

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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 (hierarchical order), 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:63
# text = Al Sabah were attracted to Islamists preaching the virtues of a hierarchical order that included loyalty to the Kuwaiti monarchy.
1	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Sabah	Sabah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	attracted	attract	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Islamists	Islamist	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	preaching	preach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	virtues	virtue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	hierarchical	hierarchical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	included	include	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Kuwaiti	kuwaiti	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	monarchy	monarchy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	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 · passive |  | Al | Islamists |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to islamist=Result |
| 2 | **preach** *speech: other* | gerund |  | the virtues of a hierarchical order |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent virtue=Topic |
| 3 | **include** | past | a hierarchical order | loyalty |  |  |  | to the Kuwaiti monarchy | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loyalty=Theme |

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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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