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title: In 2003, Qatar served as the United States Central Command headquart… — Qatar · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2003, Qatar served as the United States Central Command headquarters and one of the main launching sites of the invasion of Iraq to topple the government of Saddam Hussein. Who acts: Qatar. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Qatar» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Qatar, sentence 139

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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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In 2003, Qatar served as the United States Central Command headquarters and one of the main launching sites of the invasion of Iraq to topple the government of Saddam Hussein.

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**Who acts:** Qatar · **What happens:** serve, topple, invade · **To what, where:** government, Iraq

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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 (Qatar), 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:139
# text = In 2003, Qatar served as the United States Central Command headquarters and one of the main launching sites of the invasion of Iraq to topple the government of Saddam Hussein.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2003	2003	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Qatar	Qatar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
8	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	Command	Command	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	headquarters	headquarters	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	5	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	launching	launching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	sites	site	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Iraq	Iraq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	topple	topple	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Saddam	Saddam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	Hussein	Hussein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | past | Qatar |  |  |  |  | as the Central Command headquarters  United States; in 2003 | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent in 2003=Attribute |
| 2 | **topple** | to-infinitive | Qatar *not said here* | the government of Saddam |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent government=Patient |
| 3 | **invade** |  |  | Iraq |  |  |  |  | nom invasion «act transitive»: of=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, «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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