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title: After a series of failed diplomatic negotiations, the United States… — Kuwait City · tree and pragmatics
description: After a series of failed diplomatic negotiations, the United States led a coalition to remove the Iraqi forces from Kuwait, in what became known as the Gulf War. Who acts: United States, coalition. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuwait City» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kuwait City, sentence 72

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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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After a series of failed diplomatic negotiations, the United States led a coalition to remove the Iraqi forces from Kuwait, in what became known as the Gulf War.

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**Who acts:** United States, coalition · **What happens:** fail, lead, remove, know · **To what, where:** coalition, Iraqi forces, Kuwait

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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 (United States, coalition), 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:72
# text = After a series of failed diplomatic negotiations, the United States led a coalition to remove the Iraqi forces from Kuwait, in what became known as the Gulf War.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	series	series	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	failed	fail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
6	diplomatic	diplomatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	negotiations	negotiation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	coalition	coalition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	remove	remove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Iraqi	Iraqi	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Kuwait	Kuwait	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Gulf	Gulf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fail** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lead** | past | the United States | a coalition |  |  | after a series of failed diplomatic negotiations |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent coalition=Patient clause=Result |
| 3 | **remove** | to-infinitive | a coalition *not said here* | the Iraqi forces |  | Kuwait |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent force=Theme from kuwait=Source |
| 4 | **know** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | as the Gulf War; what *nsubj:pass* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as war=Attribute |

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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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