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title: The issue of sexual abuse among female domestic workers is another a… — United Arab Emirates · tree and pragmatics
description: The issue of sexual abuse among female domestic workers is another area of concern, particularly given that domestic servants are not covered by the UAE labour law of 1980 or the draft labour law of 2007. Who acts: issue, UAE labour law. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Arab Emirates» with its depe
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# United Arab Emirates, sentence 335

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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 issue of sexual abuse among female domestic workers is another area of concern, particularly given that domestic servants are not covered by the UAE labour law of 1980 or the draft labour law of 2007.

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**Who acts:** issue, UAE labour law · **What happens:** be, give, not cover, issue · **To what, where:** area, domestic servants, sexual abuse

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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 (issue, UAE labour law), 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:335
# text = The issue of sexual abuse among female domestic workers is another area of concern, particularly given that domestic servants are not covered by the UAE labour law of 1980 or the draft labour law of 2007.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	issue	issue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	sexual	sexual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	abuse	abuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	among	among	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	concern	concern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	obl	_	_
19	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	ccomp	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	UAE	UAE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	1980	1980	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nmod	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	draft	draft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	2007	2007	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **is a** | present | the issue of sexual abuse among female domestic workers | another area |  |  |  | of concern | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | participle |  | another area *not said here* |  |  |  | particularly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **cover** | present · passive | the UAE labour law of 1980 or the labour law of 2007 | domestic servants |  |  |  | that *obl* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Destination |
| 4 | **issue** |  |  | sexual abuse among female domestic workers |  |  |  |  | nom issue «cognition 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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