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title: Due to local customs, public shows of affection in certain public pl… — United Arab Emirates · tree and pragmatics
description: Due to local customs, public shows of affection in certain public places are illegal and could result in deportation, but holding hands is tolerated. Who acts: holding. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Arab Emirates» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United Arab Emirates, sentence 300

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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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Due to local customs, public shows of affection in certain public places are illegal and could result in deportation, but holding hands is tolerated.

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**Who acts:** holding · **What happens:** be, result, hold, tolerate, show · **To what, where:** deportation, hands, affection

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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 (holding), 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:300
# text = Due to local customs, public shows of affection in certain public places are illegal and could result in deportation, but holding hands is tolerated.
1	Due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	shows	show	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	illegal	illegal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	result	result	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	deportation	deportation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	csubj:pass	_	_
24	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	tolerated	tolerate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | due local customs and public shows of affection in certain public places; illegal *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **result** | could |  |  |  | deportation |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in deportation=Location |
| 3 | **hold** | gerund |  | hands |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 4 | **tolerate** | present · passive | holding |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |
| 5 | **show** |  |  | affection in certain public places |  |  |  |  | nom show «act 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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