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title: The UAE attracts medical tourists seeking cosmetic surgery and advan… — United Arab Emirates · tree and pragmatics
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# United Arab Emirates, sentence 558

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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 UAE attracts medical tourists seeking cosmetic surgery and advanced procedures, cardiac and spinal surgery, and dental treatment, as health services have higher standards than other Arab countries in the Persian Gulf.

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**Who acts:** UAE, medical tourists, health services · **What happens:** attract, seek, have · **To what, where:** medical tourists, cosmetic surgery, higher standards

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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 (UAE, medical tourists, health services), 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:558
# text = The UAE attracts medical tourists seeking cosmetic surgery and advanced procedures, cardiac and spinal surgery, and dental treatment, as health services have higher standards than other Arab countries in the Persian Gulf.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	UAE	UAE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	attracts	attract	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	medical	medical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tourists	tourist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	cosmetic	cosmetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	surgery	surgery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	advanced	advanced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	procedures	procedure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	cardiac	cardiac	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	spinal	spinal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	surgery	surgery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	dental	dental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
27	standards	standard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Gulf	Gulf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attract** | present | the UAE | medical tourists and advanced procedures and cardiac surgery |  |  |  | dental treatment *obl* | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tourist=Patient |
| 2 | **seek** | gerund | medical tourists and advanced procedures and cardiac surgery *not said here* | cosmetic surgery |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surgery=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | health services | higher standards |  |  |  | than other Arab countries in the Persian Gulf | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent standard=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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