Aden, sentence 64
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 major battle took place between Turan Shah bin Ayyub and Yasser bin Bilal al-Muhammadi, Minister of State, and the Zurayiyyah were defeated and al-Muhammadi fled to Taiz.
Who acts: major battle, al · What happens: take, defeat, flee · To what, where: place, Zurayiyyah, Taiz
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 (major battle, al), 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 battle | det |
| 2 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 battle | amod |
| 3 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 9 bin | case |
| 7 | Turan | Turan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Shah | compound |
| 8 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 bin | compound |
| 9 | bin | Bin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 place | nmod |
| 10 | Ayyub | Ayyub | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 bin | flat |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Yasser | cc |
| 12 | Yasser | Yasser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 bin | conj |
| 13 | bin | Bin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Yasser | flat |
| 14 | Bilal | Bilal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Yasser | flat |
| 15 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Bilal | flat |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Muhammadi | punct |
| 17 | Muhammadi | Muhammadi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Bilal | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Minister | punct |
| 19 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Yasser | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 State | case |
| 21 | State | State | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Minister | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 defeated | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 defeated | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Zurayiyyah | det |
| 25 | Zurayiyyah | Zurayiyyah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 defeated | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 defeated | aux:pass |
| 27 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 took | parataxis |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 fled | cc |
| 29 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 fled | nsubj |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 Muhammadi | punct |
| 31 | Muhammadi | Muhammadi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 al | flat |
| 32 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 defeated | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 Taiz | case |
| 34 | Taiz | Taiz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 fled | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | a major battle | place | between Shah bin and Yasser and Minister of State | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||
| 2 | defeat | past · passive | the Zurayiyyah | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | flee | past | al | Taiz | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to taiz=Initial_Location |
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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