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title: According to an estimate by the World Bank, the UAE's population in… — United Arab Emirates · tree and pragmatics
description: According to an estimate by the World Bank, the UAE's population in 2020 was 9,890,400. Who acts: World Bank. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Arab Emirates» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United Arab Emirates, sentence 499

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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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According to an estimate by the World Bank, the UAE's population in 2020 was 9,890,400.

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**Who acts:** World Bank · **What happens:** accord, be, estimate · **To what, where:** 9,890,400

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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 (World Bank), 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:499
# text = According to an estimate by the World Bank, the UAE's population in 2020 was 9,890,400.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	estimate	estimate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Bank	Bank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	UAE	UAE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nmod	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	9,890,400	9,890,400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | 9,890,400 |  |  |  | accord a estimate by the World Bank | tree rules |
| 3 | **estimate** |  | the World Bank |  |  |  |  |  | nom estimate «cognition transitive»: by=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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