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title: A senior researcher for HRW told The Guardian in 2022 of a transgend… — Qatar · tree and pragmatics
description: A senior researcher for HRW told The Guardian in 2022 of a transgender woman who was detained underground in solitary confinement for two months underground, had her long hair forcibly shaved in detention, was severely beaten her until she bled, and was denied access to medical care. Who acts: senio
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# Qatar, sentence 280

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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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A senior researcher for HRW told The Guardian in 2022 of a transgender woman who was detained underground in solitary confinement for two months underground, had her long hair forcibly shaved in detention, was severely beaten her until she bled, and was denied access to medical care.

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**Who acts:** senior researcher, long hair, researcher · **What happens:** tell, detain, have, shave, beat, bleed · **To what, where:** Guardian, 2022, transgender woman, solitary confinement, long hair, detention · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (senior researcher, long hair, researcher), 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:280
# text = A senior researcher for HRW told The Guardian in 2022 of a transgender woman who was detained underground in solitary confinement for two months underground, had her long hair forcibly shaved in detention, was severely beaten her until she bled, and was denied access to medical care.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	senior	senior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	researcher	researcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	HRW	HRW	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Guardian	guardian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	iobj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	transgender	transgender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	detained	detain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	underground	underground	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	solitary	solitary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	confinement	confinement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
25	underground	underground	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	forcibly	forcibly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
32	shaved	shave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	xcomp	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	detention	detention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
37	severely	severely	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	parataxis	_	_
39	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	bled	bleed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	denied	deny	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
47	access	access	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	medical	medical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | a senior researcher for HRW |  | the Guardian | 2022 of a transgender woman |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent guardian=Recipient |
| 2 | **detain** | past · passive |  | a transgender woman |  | solitary confinement | month | underground *property* | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past |  | researcher's long hair |  |  |  | forcibly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **shave** | participle | researcher's long hair *not said here* |  |  | detention |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **beat** | past · passive |  | researcher |  |  |  | severely *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: she=Theme |
| 6 | **bleed** | past | researcher |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 7 | **deny** | past · passive | a senior researcher for HRW *not said here* | access |  |  |  | to medical care | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: access=Eventuality |

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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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