--- title: On 29 January 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reac… — United Arab Emirates · tree and pragmatics description: On 29 January 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the UAE. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Arab Emirates» with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Arab_Emirates/133/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [United Arab Emirates](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Arab_Emirates/) / 133 # United Arab Emirates, sentence 133 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. On 29 January 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the UAE. **What happens:** confirm, reach · **To what, where:** COVID pandemic, 29, UAE 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: 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:United_Arab_Emirates:133 # text = On 29 January 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the UAE. 1 On on ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 29 29 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 obl _ _ 3 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:unmarked _ _ 4 2020 2020 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 7 COVID COVID PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 19 19 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 flat _ _ 10 pandemic pandemic NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 confirmed confirm VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 14 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 aux _ _ 15 reached reach VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 UAE UAE PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **confirm** | past · passive | | the COVID pandemic | | 29 2020 January | | | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 2 | **reach** | to-infinitive · perfect | | the UAE | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent uae=Theme | 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, «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. - ← previous: [sentence 132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Arab_Emirates/132/) - next →: [sentence 134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Arab_Emirates/134/) - ↑ back to [United Arab Emirates](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Arab_Emirates/)