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title: The UAE has begun production of a greater amount of military equipme… — United Arab Emirates · tree and pragmatics
description: The UAE has begun production of a greater amount of military equipment, in a bid to reduce foreign dependence and help with national industrialisation. Who acts: UAE. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Arab Emirates» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United Arab Emirates, sentence 272

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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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The UAE has begun production of a greater amount of military equipment, in a bid to reduce foreign dependence and help with national industrialisation.

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**Who acts:** UAE · **What happens:** begin, reduce, produce, amount · **To what, where:** production, foreign dependence, greater amount, military equipment

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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 (UAE), 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:272
# text = The UAE has begun production of a greater amount of military equipment, in a bid to reduce foreign dependence and help with national industrialisation.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	UAE	UAE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	begun	begin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	production	production	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	equipment	equipment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bid	bid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	reduce	reduce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	dependence	dependence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	industrialisation	industrialisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | present · perfect | the UAE | production of a greater amount of military equipment |  |  |  | a bid *parataxis* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent production=Eventuality |
| 2 | **reduce** | to-infinitive | the UAE *not said here* | foreign dependence and help with national industrialisation |  |  |  |  | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer dependence=Patient |
| 3 | **produce** |  |  | a greater amount of military equipment |  |  |  |  | nom production «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **amount** |  |  | military equipment |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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