--- title: On 24 September 2024, Qatar was designated as the first Gulf country… — Qatar · tree and pragmatics description: On 24 September 2024, Qatar was designated as the first Gulf country to join the US Visa Waiver Programme (VWP), allowing its citizens to travel to the US for up to 90 days for business or tourism without a visa. Who acts: citizens. 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On 24 September 2024, Qatar was designated as the first Gulf country to join the US Visa Waiver Programme (VWP), allowing its citizens to travel to the US for up to 90 days for business or tourism without a visa. **Who acts:** citizens · **What happens:** designate, join, allow, travel · **To what, where:** Qatar, Visa Waiver Programme, citizens, US 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 (citizens), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:230 # text = On 24 September 2024, Qatar was designated as the first Gulf country to join the US Visa Waiver Programme (VWP), allowing its citizens to travel to the US for up to 90 days for business or tourism without a visa. 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 September September PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 2024 2024 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 Qatar Qatar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 designated designate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 13 amod _ _ 12 Gulf Gulf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 join join VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 17 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 Visa Visa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 19 Waiver Waiver PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 Programme Programme PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 VWP vwp NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 allowing allow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 citizens citizen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 travel travel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 up up ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 90 90 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 38 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 business business NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 40 or or CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 tourism tourism NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 42 without without ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 visa visa NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **designate** | past · passive | | Qatar | | | september | as the first Gulf country | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as country=Attribute | | 2 | **join** | to-infinitive | | the Visa Waiver Programme | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent programme=Patient | | 3 | **allow** | gerund | | VWP's citizens | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer citizen=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **travel** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | VWP's citizens *not said here* | | the US | | day | without a visa | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to us=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 229](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Qatar/229/) - next →: [sentence 231](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Qatar/231/) - ↑ back to [Qatar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Qatar/)