--- title: Aside from the leisure aspect, sports can play an important part in… — United Arab Emirates · tree and pragmatics description: Aside from the leisure aspect, sports can play an important part in shaping national identity. Who acts: sports, important part. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Arab Emirates» with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Arab_Emirates/608/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [United Arab Emirates](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Arab_Emirates/) / 608 # United Arab Emirates, sentence 608 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. Aside from the leisure aspect, sports can play an important part in shaping national identity. **Who acts:** sports, important part · **What happens:** play, shape · **To what, where:** important part, national identity 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 (sports, important part), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:608 # text = Aside from the leisure aspect, sports can play an important part in shaping national identity. 1 Aside aside ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 2 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 leisure leisure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 aspect aspect NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 7 sports sport NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 important important ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 in in SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 shaping shape VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 acl _ _ 15 national national ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 identity identity NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | can | sports | a important part | | | | aside *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | | 2 | **shape** | gerund | a important part *not said here* | national identity | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset identity=Product | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 607](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Arab_Emirates/607/) - next →: [sentence 609](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Arab_Emirates/609/) - ↑ back to [United Arab Emirates](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Arab_Emirates/)