Abu Dhabi, sentence 24
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.
Originally consisting of a fort and twenty houses, within two years the town consisted of a settlement of some 400 houses.
Who acts: town · What happens: consist
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 (town), 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 | Originally | originally | ADV | _ | 2 consisting | advmod |
| 2 | consisting | consist | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 consisted | advcl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 fort | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fort | det |
| 5 | fort | fort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 consisting | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 houses | cc |
| 7 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 houses | nummod |
| 8 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fort | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 consisting | punct |
| 10 | within | within | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 consisted | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 town | det |
| 14 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 consisted | nsubj |
| 15 | consisted | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 settlement | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 settlement | det |
| 18 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 consisted | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 houses | case |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 houses | det |
| 21 | 400 | 400 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 houses | nummod |
| 22 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 settlement | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 consisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consist | gerund | the town not said here | of a fort and twenty houses; originally property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | consist | past | the town | year | of a settlement of some 400 houses | tree rules |
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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