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title: In January 2006, Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the prime min… — United Arab Emirates · tree and pragmatics
description: In January 2006, Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the prime minister of the UAE and the ruler of Dubai, died, and Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum assumed both roles. Who acts: Sheikh Maktoum, Sheikh Mohammed. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Arab Emirates» with its dependency tree and pr
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# United Arab Emirates, sentence 128

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From Wikipedia, [«United Arab Emirates»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates), 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 January 2006, Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the prime minister of the UAE and the ruler of Dubai, died, and Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum assumed both roles.

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**Who acts:** Sheikh Maktoum, Sheikh Mohammed · **What happens:** die, assume · **To what, where:** roles

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «United Arab Emirates». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sheikh Maktoum, Sheikh Mohammed), 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:United_Arab_Emirates:128
# text = In January 2006, Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the prime minister of the UAE and the ruler of Dubai, died, and Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum assumed both roles.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
3	2006	2006	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	Sheikh	Sheikh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Maktoum	Maktoum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
7	bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	Rashid	Rashid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
9	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
10	Maktoum	Maktoum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	prime	prime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	UAE	UAE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Dubai	Dubai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
24	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
27	Sheikh	Sheikh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Mohammed	Mohammed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
29	bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	_
30	Rashid	Rashid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	_
31	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
32	Maktoum	Maktoum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	_
33	assumed	assume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
34	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	roles	role	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | Sheikh Maktoum |  |  |  | january |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **assume** | past | Sheikh Mohammed and Al | both roles |  |  |  |  | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=Theme |

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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, «United Arab Emirates», 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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