--- title: Half are appointed by the rulers of the constituent emirates, and th… — United Arab Emirates · tree and pragmatics description: Half are appointed by the rulers of the constituent emirates, and the other half are elected by a small percentage of Emirati citizens, currently 33%, hand-picked by the rulers of each emirate. Who acts: small percentage. 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Half are appointed by the rulers of the constituent emirates, and the other half are elected by a small percentage of Emirati citizens, currently 33%, hand-picked by the rulers of each emirate. **Who acts:** small percentage · **What happens:** appoint, elect, pick · **To what, where:** Half, other half, small percentage 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 (small percentage), 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:211 # text = Half are appointed by the rulers of the constituent emirates, and the other half are elected by a small percentage of Emirati citizens, currently 33%, hand-picked by the rulers of each emirate. 1 Half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 appointed appoint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 rulers ruler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 constituent constituent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 emirates emirate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 elected elect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 18 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 percentage percentage NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 Emirati Emirati PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 citizens citizen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 currently currently ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 33 33 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 picked pick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ _ 33 by by ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 rulers ruler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 38 det _ _ 38 emirate emirate NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appoint** | present · passive | | Half | | | | by the rulers of the constituent emirates | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **elect** | present · passive | a small percentage of Emirati citizens | the other half | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 3 | **pick** | participle | | a small percentage of Emirati citizens *not said here* | | | | by the rulers of each emirate; hand *compound* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 210](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Arab_Emirates/210/) - next →: [sentence 212](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Arab_Emirates/212/) - ↑ back to [United Arab Emirates](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Arab_Emirates/)