Aden, sentence 18
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Aden is a home and a place for ships, and in Arabic the word "Aden" means residence, and it is said "Aden Al-Balad", meaning the settlement of the country.
Who acts: Aden, word · What happens: be, mean, say · To what, where: place, residence, word, settlement · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Aden, word), 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 | Aden | Aden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 place | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 place | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 home | det |
| 4 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 place | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 place | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 place | det |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 ships | case |
| 9 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 place | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 means | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 means | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Arabic | case |
| 13 | Arabic | Arabic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 means | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 word | det |
| 15 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 means | nsubj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Aden | punct |
| 17 | Aden | Aden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 word | appos |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Aden | punct |
| 19 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 place | parataxis |
| 20 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 means | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 said | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 said | aux:pass |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 means | conj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Aden | punct |
| 27 | Aden | Aden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 said | ccomp |
| 28 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Aden | flat |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 Balad | punct |
| 30 | Balad | Balad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Aden | conj |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Aden | punct |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 meaning | punct |
| 33 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 means | advcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 settlement | det |
| 35 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 meaning | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 country | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 country | det |
| 38 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 settlement | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Aden | a place | for ships; a home nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mean | present | the word | residence | in Arabic | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot residence=Theme in arabic=Attribute | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present · passive | word | Aden and Balad ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 4 | mean | gerund | the word not said here | the settlement of the country | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent settlement=Topic |
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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