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title: Etisalat operated a monopoly until du launched mobile services in Fe… — United Arab Emirates · tree and pragmatics
description: Etisalat operated a monopoly until du launched mobile services in February 2007. Who acts: Etisalat, du. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Arab Emirates» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United Arab Emirates, sentence 495

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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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Etisalat operated a monopoly until du launched mobile services in February 2007.

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**Who acts:** Etisalat, du · **What happens:** operate, launch · **To what, where:** monopoly, mobile services

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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 (Etisalat, du), 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:495
# text = Etisalat operated a monopoly until du launched mobile services in February 2007.
1	Etisalat	Etisalat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	operated	operate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	monopoly	monopoly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	du	du	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	launched	launch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
8	mobile	mobile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	2007	2007	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **operate** | past | Etisalat | a monopoly |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Theme monopoly=Attribute |
| 2 | **launch** | past | du | mobile services |  |  | february |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Theme |

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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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