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title: It played a significant role in OPEC, prior to its exit from the gro… — United Arab Emirates · tree and pragmatics
description: It played a significant role in OPEC, prior to its exit from the group on 1 May 2026 and is one of the founding members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Who acts: corner. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Arab Emirates» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United Arab Emirates, sentence 241

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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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It played a significant role in OPEC, prior to its exit from the group on 1 May 2026 and is one of the founding members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

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**Who acts:** corner · **What happens:** play, be · **To what, where:** significant role, OPEC, one

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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 (corner), 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:241
# text = It played a significant role in OPEC, prior to its exit from the group on 1 May 2026 and is one of the founding members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	OPEC	OPEC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	prior	prior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	exit	exit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
19	2026	2026	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	flat	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	founding	founding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	Gulf	Gulf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
30	Cooperation	Cooperation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
32	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	GCC	GCC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **play** | past | corner | a significant role |  | OPEC | may | prior corner's exit; from the group | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | corner *not said here* | one |  |  |  | of the founding members of the Gulf Cooperation Council | tree rules |

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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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