Aden, sentence 186
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By January 1986, Aden was torn apart by the rivalry of two factions in the ruling Socialist Party, when President Ali Nasser Muhammad's guards launched a surprise attack on the political party's office in Aden on 13 January 1986.
Who acts: guards · What happens: tear apart, rule, launch, rival · To what, where: Aden, surprise attack, office, two factions
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 (guards), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 January | case |
| 2 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 torn | obl |
| 3 | 1986 | 1986 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 January | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 January | punct |
| 5 | Aden | Aden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 torn | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 torn | aux:pass |
| 7 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 7 torn | advmod |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 rivalry | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rivalry | det |
| 11 | rivalry | rivalry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 torn | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 factions | case |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 factions | nummod |
| 14 | factions | faction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rivalry | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Party | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Party | det |
| 17 | ruling | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 Socialist | amod |
| 18 | Socialist | socialist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Party | nmod:desc |
| 19 | Party | Party | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 factions | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 launched | punct |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 launched | advmod |
| 22 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Ali | nmod:desc |
| 23 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 guards | nmod:poss |
| 24 | Nasser | Nasser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Ali | flat |
| 25 | Muhammad | Muhammad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Ali | flat |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 Ali | case |
| 27 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 launched | nsubj |
| 28 | launched | launch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 rivalry | acl:relcl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 attack | det |
| 30 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 attack | compound |
| 31 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 launched | obj |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 office | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 party | det |
| 34 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 party | amod |
| 35 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 office | nmod:poss |
| 36 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 35 party | case |
| 37 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 launched | obl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 Aden | case |
| 39 | Aden | Aden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 office | nmod |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 13 | case |
| 41 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 launched | obl |
| 42 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 13 | nmod:unmarked |
| 43 | 1986 | 1986 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 41 13 | flat |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 torn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear apart | past · passive | Aden | january | by the rivalry of two factions in the Party ruling Socialist; apart property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | rule | gerund | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | launch | past | Ali President's guards | a surprise attack | the political party's office in Aden | on 13 January | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent attack=Theme on office=Destination | ||
| 4 | rival | two factions in the Party ruling Socialist | nom rivalry «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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