Aden, sentence 20
From Wikipedia, «Aden», 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.
Yaqut al-Hamwi said: "It is a famous city on the coast of the Indian Sea, towards the Yemen, and it is poor, with no water or pasture.
Who acts: Yaqut, home · What happens: say, be · To what, where: famous city, coast · 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 (Yaqut, home), 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 | Yaqut | Yaqut | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 2 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Yaqut | flat |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Hamwi | punct |
| 4 | Hamwi | Hamwi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Yaqut | flat |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 city | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 city | punct |
| 8 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 city | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 city | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 city | det |
| 11 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 city | amod |
| 12 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 coast | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 coast | det |
| 15 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 city | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Sea | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Sea | det |
| 18 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Sea | amod |
| 19 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 coast | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Yemen | punct |
| 21 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 23 Yemen | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Yemen | det |
| 23 | Yemen | Yemen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 poor | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 poor | cc |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 poor | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 poor | cop |
| 28 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 water | punct |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 water | case |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 water | det |
| 32 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 poor | obl |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 pasture | cc |
| 34 | pasture | pasture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 water | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Yaqut | towards the Yemen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | home | a famous city | the coast of the Indian Sea | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | home | with no water or pasture; poor 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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