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title: Shortly before the invasion, Qatari government offered sanctuary to… — Qatar · tree and pragmatics
description: Shortly before the invasion, Qatari government offered sanctuary to Saddam. Who acts: Qatari government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Qatar» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Qatar, sentence 140

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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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Shortly before the invasion, Qatari government offered sanctuary to Saddam.

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**Who acts:** Qatari government · **What happens:** offer · **To what, where:** sanctuary, Saddam

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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 (Qatari government), 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:140
# text = Shortly before the invasion, Qatari government offered sanctuary to Saddam.
1	Shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	before	before	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Qatari	Qatari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	sanctuary	sanctuary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Saddam	Saddam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | past | Qatari government | sanctuary | Saddam |  | before the invasion |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent sanctuary=Theme to saddam=Goal |

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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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