--- title: It jointly appoints one member as federal president, who appoints a… — United Arab Emirates · tree and pragmatics description: It jointly appoints one member as federal president, who appoints a prime minister, who forms and leads the cabinet. Who acts: Council, federal president, prime minister. 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/21/) [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/) / 21 # United Arab Emirates, sentence 21 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. It jointly appoints one member as federal president, who appoints a prime minister, who forms and leads the cabinet. **Who acts:** Council, federal president, prime minister · **What happens:** appoint, form, lead · **To what, where:** one member, prime minister, cabinet 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 (Council, federal president, prime minister), 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:21 # text = It jointly appoints one member as federal president, who appoints a prime minister, who forms and leads the cabinet. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 jointly jointly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 appoints appoint VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 member member NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 as as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 federal federal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 president president NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 appoints appoint VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 prime prime ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 minister minister NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 forms form VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 leads lead VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 cabinet cabinet NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appoint** | present | Council | one member | | | | as federal president; jointly *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent member=Theme as president=Attribute | | 2 | **appoint** | present | federal president | a prime minister | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minister=Theme | | 3 | **form** | present | a prime minister | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **lead** | present | a prime minister *not said here* | the cabinet | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cabinet=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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Arab_Emirates/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Arab_Emirates/22/) - ↑ back to [United Arab Emirates](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Arab_Emirates/)