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title: Immigrant workers are often subject to harsh forms of the law within… — United Arab Emirates · tree and pragmatics
description: Immigrant workers are often subject to harsh forms of the law within the country, and are often victims of arbitrary detention or torture within the country. Who acts: Immigrant workers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Arab Emirates» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United Arab Emirates, sentence 331

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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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Immigrant workers are often subject to harsh forms of the law within the country, and are often victims of arbitrary detention or torture within the country.

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**Who acts:** Immigrant workers · **What happens:** be, form · **To what, where:** victims, law

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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 (Immigrant workers), 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:331
# text = Immigrant workers are often subject to harsh forms of the law within the country, and are often victims of arbitrary detention or torture within the country.
1	Immigrant	immigrant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	subject	subject	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	harsh	harsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	within	within	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	often	often	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	victims	victim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	arbitrary	arbitrary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	detention	detention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	torture	torture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	within	within	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Immigrant workers |  |  |  |  | to harsh forms of the law within the country; often, subject *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | victims |  |  |  | of arbitrary detention or torture within the country; often *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **form** |  |  | the law within the country |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication 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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