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title: The harsh desert environment led to the emergence of the "versatile… — United Arab Emirates · tree and pragmatics
description: The harsh desert environment led to the emergence of the "versatile tribesman", nomadic groups who subsisted due to a variety of economic activities, including animal husbandry, agriculture, and hunting. Who acts: harsh desert environment, nomadic groups, versatile tribesman. A sentence of Wikipedia
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# United Arab Emirates, sentence 44

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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 harsh desert environment led to the emergence of the "versatile tribesman", nomadic groups who subsisted due to a variety of economic activities, including animal husbandry, agriculture, and hunting.

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**Who acts:** harsh desert environment, nomadic groups, versatile tribesman · **What happens:** lead, subsist, emerge

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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 (harsh desert environment, nomadic groups, versatile tribesman), 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:44
# text = The harsh desert environment led to the emergence of the "versatile tribesman", nomadic groups who subsisted due to a variety of economic activities, including animal husbandry, agriculture, and hunting.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	harsh	harsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	environment	environment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	emergence	emergence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	versatile	versatile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	tribesman	tribesman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	nomadic	nomadic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	subsisted	subsist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	23	case	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	variety	variety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	activities	activity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	including	including	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	husbandry	husbandry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	agriculture	agriculture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **lead** | past | the harsh desert environment |  |  |  |  | to the emergence of the versatile tribesman and nomadic groups; hunting *conj* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to emergence=Patient |
| 2 | **subsist** | past | nomadic groups |  |  |  |  | due a variety of economic activities | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **emerge** |  | the versatile tribesman and nomadic groups |  |  |  |  |  | nom emergence «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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