Abu Dhabi, sentence 19
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.
The Bani Yas, the tribe from which the Al Nahyan family are drawn, was originally settled in the Liwa Oasis in the Emirate's western region.
What happens: draw, settle · To what, where: Al family, tribe, Bani Yas, Liwa Oasis
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Yas | det |
| 2 | Bani | Bani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Yas | compound |
| 3 | Yas | Yas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 settled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tribe | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tribe | det |
| 6 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Yas | appos |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 drawn | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 family | det |
| 10 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 family | compound |
| 11 | Nahyan | Nahyan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Al | flat |
| 12 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drawn | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 drawn | aux:pass |
| 14 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 tribe | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Yas | punct |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 settled | aux:pass |
| 17 | originally | originally | ADV | _ | 18 settled | advmod |
| 18 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Oasis | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Oasis | det |
| 21 | Liwa | Liwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Oasis | compound |
| 22 | Oasis | Oasis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 settled | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 region | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Emirate | det |
| 25 | Emirate | Emirate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 region | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 Emirate | case |
| 27 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 region | amod |
| 28 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 settled | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | present · passive | the Al family | the tribe | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from which=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | settle | past · passive | the Bani Yas | the Liwa Oasis | in the Emirate's western region; originally property | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in oasis=Location |
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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