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title: Regional disputes, however, persuaded Qatar and Bahrain to withdraw… — Qatar · tree and pragmatics
description: Regional disputes, however, persuaded Qatar and Bahrain to withdraw from the talks and become independent states separate from the Trucial States, which went on to become the United Arab Emirates. Who acts: Regional disputes, independent states, Trucial States. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Qatar» with
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# Qatar, sentence 118

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From Wikipedia, [«Qatar»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar), 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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Regional disputes, however, persuaded Qatar and Bahrain to withdraw from the talks and become independent states separate from the Trucial States, which went on to become the United Arab Emirates.

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**Who acts:** Regional disputes, independent states, Trucial States · **What happens:** persuade, withdraw, become, separate, go on · **To what, where:** Qatar, talks, United Arab Emirates

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Qatar». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Regional disputes, independent states, Trucial States), 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:Qatar:118
# text = Regional disputes, however, persuaded Qatar and Bahrain to withdraw from the talks and become independent states separate from the Trucial States, which went on to become the United Arab Emirates.
1	Regional	regional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	disputes	dispute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	persuaded	persuade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Qatar	Qatar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Bahrain	Bahrain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	withdraw	withdraw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	talks	talk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	separate	separate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Trucial	Trucial	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	on	on	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	Arab	Arab	PROPN	NNP	_	33	flat	_	_
33	Emirates	Emirates	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **persuade** | past | Regional disputes | Qatar and Bahrain |  |  |  | however *property* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent qatar=Patient |
| 2 | **withdraw** | to-infinitive | Regional disputes *not said here* |  |  | the talks |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from talk=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **become** | present | Regional disputes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **separate** | present | independent states |  |  |  |  | from the Trucial States | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from state=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **go on** | past | the Trucial States |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **become** | to-infinitive | the Trucial States *not said here* | the United Arab Emirates |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient emirates=Result |

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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, «Qatar», 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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