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title: Dubai has an area of 3885 km2, which is equivalent to 5% of the coun… — United Arab Emirates · tree and pragmatics
description: Dubai has an area of 3885 km2, which is equivalent to 5% of the country's total area, excluding the islands. Who acts: Dubai, area. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Arab Emirates» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United Arab Emirates, sentence 228

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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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Dubai has an area of 3885 km2, which is equivalent to 5% of the country's total area, excluding the islands.

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**Who acts:** Dubai, area · **What happens:** have, be, exclude · **To what, where:** area, islands

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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 (Dubai, area), 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:228
# text = Dubai has an area of 3885 km2, which is equivalent to 5% of the country's total area, excluding the islands.
1	Dubai	Dubai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	3885	3885	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
7	km2	km2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	equivalent	equivalent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	excluding	exclude	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Dubai | a area of 3885 |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | a area of 3885 |  |  |  |  | equivalent *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **exclude** | gerund | a area of 3885 *not said here* | the islands |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer island=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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