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title: South Asians in the United Arab Emirates constitute the largest ethn… — United Arab Emirates · tree and pragmatics
description: South Asians in the United Arab Emirates constitute the largest ethnic group in the country. Who acts: South Asians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Arab Emirates» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United Arab Emirates, sentence 529

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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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South Asians in the United Arab Emirates constitute the largest ethnic group in the country.

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**Who acts:** South Asians · **What happens:** constitute · **To what, where:** largest ethnic group, country

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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 (South Asians), 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:529
# text = South Asians in the United Arab Emirates constitute the largest ethnic group in the country.
1	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Asians	Asian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Arab	Arab	PROPN	NNP	_	7	flat	_	_
7	Emirates	emirate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
8	constitute	constitute	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
11	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **constitute** | present | South Asians in the Arab Emirates | the largest ethnic group |  | the country |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme group=Pivot |

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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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