Ankara, sentence 148
From Wikipedia, «Ankara», 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.
The city lies in USDA Hardiness zone 7b, and its annual average precipitation is fairly low at 414 mm, nevertheless precipitation can be observed throughout the year.
Who acts: city, annual average precipitation · What happens: lie, be, observe · To what, where: USDA zone 7b, 414 mm, precipitation
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ankara». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city, annual average precipitation), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lies | nsubj |
| 3 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 7b | case |
| 5 | USDA | USDA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 7b | compound |
| 6 | Hardiness | hardiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 zone | compound |
| 7 | zone | zone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 7b | compound |
| 8 | 7b | 7b | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 3 lies | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 low | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 low | cc |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 precipitation | nmod:poss |
| 12 | annual | annual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 precipitation | amod |
| 13 | average | average | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 precipitation | amod |
| 14 | precipitation | precipitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 low | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 low | cop |
| 16 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 17 low | advmod |
| 17 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lies | advcl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 mm | case |
| 19 | 414 | 414 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 mm | nummod |
| 20 | mm | mm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 low | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 observed | punct |
| 22 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 26 observed | advmod |
| 23 | precipitation | precipitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 observed | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 observed | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 observed | aux:pass |
| 26 | observed | observe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 lies | parataxis |
| 27 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 29 year | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 year | det |
| 29 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 observed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | the city | USDA zone 7b | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in 7b=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | city's annual average precipitation | 414 mm | fairly, low property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | observe | can · passive | precipitation | year | nevertheless property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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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