Abu Dhabi, sentence 188
From Wikipedia, «Abu Dhabi», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Abu Dhabi is known in the region for its greenery; the former desert strip today includes numerous parks and gardens.
Who acts: former desert strip · What happens: know, include · To what, where: Abu, region, numerous parks
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Abu Dhabi». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (former desert strip), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Abu | Abu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 known | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | Dhabi | Dhabi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Abu | flat |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 known | aux:pass |
| 4 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 region | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 region | det |
| 7 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 known | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 greenery | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 greenery | nmod:poss |
| 10 | greenery | greenery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 region | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 includes | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 strip | det |
| 13 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 strip | amod |
| 14 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 strip | compound |
| 15 | strip | strip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 includes | nsubj |
| 16 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 includes | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | includes | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 known | parataxis |
| 18 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 parks | amod |
| 19 | parks | park | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 includes | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gardens | cc |
| 21 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 parks | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · passive | Abu | the region for Corniche's greenery | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | include | present | the former desert strip | numerous parks and gardens | today | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent park=Theme |
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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