Aden, sentence 167
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Qahtan al-Shaabi dismissed Interior Minister Muhammad Ali Haitham on 16 June 1969, but the latter, with his ties to the tribes and the army, reassembled the leftist forces that had been dispersed by President Qahtan al-Shaabi, and they were able to place him under house arrest on 22 June.
Who acts: Qahtan, forces · What happens: dismiss, reassemble, disperse, be · To what, where: Muhammad Ali, 16, leftist forces, place
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Aden». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Qahtan, forces), 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 | Qahtan | Qahtan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dismissed | nsubj |
| 2 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Qahtan | flat |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Shaabi | punct |
| 4 | Shaabi | Shaabi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Qahtan | flat |
| 5 | dismissed | dismiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Interior | Interior | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Minister | compound |
| 7 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ali | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Muhammad | Muhammad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ali | compound |
| 9 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dismissed | obj |
| 10 | Haitham | Haitham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ali | flat |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 16 | case |
| 12 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 dismissed | obl |
| 13 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 1969 | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | 1969 | 1969 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 16 | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 latter | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 latter | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 latter | det |
| 18 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dismissed | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ties | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 ties | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 ties | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ties | tie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 latter | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 tribes | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 tribes | det |
| 25 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ties | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 army | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 army | det |
| 28 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tribes | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 reassembled | punct |
| 30 | reassembled | reassemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dismissed | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 forces | det |
| 32 | leftist | leftist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 forces | compound |
| 33 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 reassembled | obj |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 dispersed | obj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 dispersed | aux |
| 36 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 dispersed | aux:pass |
| 37 | dispersed | disperse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 forces | acl:relcl |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 40 Qahtan | case |
| 39 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Qahtan | nmod:desc |
| 40 | Qahtan | Qahtan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 dispersed | obl:agent |
| 41 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Qahtan | flat |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 Shaabi | punct |
| 43 | Shaabi | Shaabi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Qahtan | flat |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 able | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 able | cc |
| 46 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 able | nsubj |
| 47 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 able | cop |
| 48 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dismissed | conj |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 50 place | mark |
| 50 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 able | xcomp |
| 51 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 place | obj |
| 52 | under | under | ADP | _ | 54 arrest | case |
| 53 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 arrest | compound |
| 54 | arrest | arrest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 place | nmod |
| 55 | on | on | ADP | _ | 56 22 | case |
| 56 | 22 | 22 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 54 arrest | nmod |
| 57 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 56 22 | nmod:unmarked |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dismissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismiss | past | Qahtan | Muhammad Ali Interior Minister | 16 | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ali=Theme | |||
| 2 | reassemble | past | Qahtan not said here | the leftist forces | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Product | ||||
| 3 | disperse | past · perfect · passive | Qahtan President | the leftist forces | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent that=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | forces = force | place Qahtan under house arrest on 22 June | able property | 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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