Amman, sentence 87
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Likewise, in 985, the Jerusalemite historian al-Muqaddasi described Amman as the capital of Balqa, that it was a town in the desert fringe of Syria surrounded by villages and cornfields and a regional source of lambs, grain and honey.
Who acts: Jerusalemite historian, historian · What happens: describe, be, surround · To what, where: Amman, 985, town, desert fringe
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Amman». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jerusalemite historian, historian), 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 | Likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 12 described | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Likewise | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 985 | case |
| 4 | 985 | 985 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 described | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 985 | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 historian | det |
| 7 | Jerusalemite | Jerusalemite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 historian | compound |
| 8 | historian | historian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 described | nsubj |
| 9 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 historian | appos |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Muqaddasi | punct |
| 11 | Muqaddasi | Muqaddasi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 al | flat |
| 12 | described | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Amman | Amman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 described | obj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 capital | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 capital | det |
| 16 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 described | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Balqa | case |
| 18 | Balqa | Balqa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 capital | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 town | punct |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 town | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 town | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 town | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 town | det |
| 24 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 described | parataxis |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 fringe | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 fringe | det |
| 27 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fringe | compound |
| 28 | fringe | fringe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 town | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Syria | case |
| 30 | Syria | Syria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 fringe | nmod |
| 31 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 fringe | acl |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 villages | case |
| 33 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 cornfields | cc |
| 35 | cornfields | cornfield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 villages | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 source | cc |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 source | det |
| 38 | regional | regional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 source | amod |
| 39 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fringe | conj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 lambs | case |
| 41 | lambs | lamb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 source | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 grain | punct |
| 43 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 town | obl |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 honey | cc |
| 45 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 grain | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 described | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | past | the Jerusalemite historian | Amman | 985 | as the capital of Balqa; likewise property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent amman=Theme as capital=Attribute | ||
| 2 | is a | past | historian | a town | the desert fringe of Syria and a regional source of lambs | grain and honey obl | tree rules | ||
| 3 | surround | participle | the desert fringe of Syria and a regional source of lambs not said here | villages and cornfields obl:agent | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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