Aden, sentence 291
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.
A painted crest of the 24th British army battalion is still visible on the brickwork adjacent to the Gate site and is believed to be the only remaining army Crest from colonial rule still visible in Aden.
Who acts: painted crest · What happens: paint, be, believe · To what, where: brickwork, only remaining army Crest, colonial rule
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 (painted crest), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 crest | det |
| 2 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 crest | amod |
| 3 | crest | crest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 visible | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 battalion | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 battalion | det |
| 6 | 24th | 24th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 9 battalion | amod |
| 7 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 battalion | amod |
| 8 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 battalion | compound |
| 9 | battalion | battalion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crest | nmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 visible | cop |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 visible | advmod |
| 12 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 brickwork | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 brickwork | det |
| 15 | brickwork | brickwork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 visible | obl |
| 16 | adjacent | adjacent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 brickwork | amod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 site | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 site | det |
| 19 | Gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 site | compound |
| 20 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 adjacent | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 believed | cc |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 believed | aux:pass |
| 23 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 visible | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 Crest | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 Crest | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Crest | det |
| 27 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Crest | amod |
| 28 | remaining | remaining | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Crest | amod |
| 29 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Crest | compound |
| 30 | Crest | crest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 believed | xcomp |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 rule | case |
| 32 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 rule | amod |
| 33 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Crest | nmod |
| 34 | still | still | ADV | _ | 35 visible | advmod |
| 35 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 rule | amod |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 Aden | case |
| 37 | Aden | Aden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 visible | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 visible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | a painted crest of the 24th British army battalion | the brickwork | still | visible property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | believe | present · passive | a painted crest of the 24th British army battalion not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | |||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | a painted crest of the 24th British army battalion not said here | the only remaining army Crest | colonial rule | 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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