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title: Meat and rice are other staple foods, with lamb and mutton preferred… — United Arab Emirates · tree and pragmatics
description: Meat and rice are other staple foods, with lamb and mutton preferred to goat and beef. Who acts: Meat. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Arab Emirates» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United Arab Emirates, sentence 595

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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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Meat and rice are other staple foods, with lamb and mutton preferred to goat and beef.

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**Who acts:** Meat · **What happens:** be, prefer · **To what, where:** other staple foods, lamb

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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 (Meat), 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:595
# text = Meat and rice are other staple foods, with lamb and mutton preferred to goat and beef.
1	Meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	staple	staple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	foods	food	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	mutton	mutton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	preferred	prefer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	beef	beef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Meat and rice | other staple foods and lamb and mutton |  |  |  | lamb and mutton *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **prefer** | participle |  | lamb and mutton *not said here* |  |  |  | to goat and beef | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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