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title: With an area of 860 km2, Bubiyan is the largest island in Kuwait and… — Kuwait City · tree and pragmatics
description: With an area of 860 km2, Bubiyan is the largest island in Kuwait and is connected to the rest of the country by a 2380 m bridge. Who acts: Bubiyan, m bridge. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuwait City» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kuwait City, sentence 85

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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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With an area of 860 km2, Bubiyan is the largest island in Kuwait and is connected to the rest of the country by a 2380 m bridge.

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**Who acts:** Bubiyan, m bridge · **What happens:** be, connect · **To what, where:** largest island, 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 (Bubiyan, m bridge), 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:85
# text = With an area of 860 km2, Bubiyan is the largest island in Kuwait and is connected to the rest of the country by a 2380 m bridge.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	860	860	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
6	km2	km2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	Bubiyan	Bubiyan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Kuwait	Kuwait	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	2380	2380	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	m	M	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Bubiyan | the largest island |  | Kuwait |  | with a area of 860 | tree rules |
| 2 | **connect** | present · passive | a m bridge |  |  |  |  | to the rest of the country | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient to rest=Co-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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