Ankara, sentence 170
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.
It was connected to Istanbul by railway before the First World War, continuing to export mohair, wool, berries, and grain.
Who acts: railway · What happens: connect, continue, export · To what, where: goat, Istanbul, mohair
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 (railway), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 connected | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 connected | aux:pass |
| 3 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Istanbul | case |
| 5 | Istanbul | Istanbul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 connected | obl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 railway | case |
| 7 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 connected | obl |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 War | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 War | det |
| 10 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 War | amod |
| 11 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 War | compound |
| 12 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 connected | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 continuing | punct |
| 14 | continuing | continue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 connected | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 export | mark |
| 16 | export | export | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 continuing | xcomp |
| 17 | mohair | mohair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 export | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wool | punct |
| 19 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mohair | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 berries | punct |
| 21 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 mohair | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 grain | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 grain | cc |
| 24 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 connected | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 connected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | connect | past · passive | railway | goat | Istanbul | before the First World War | grain obl | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient to istanbul=Co-Patient | |
| 2 | continue | gerund | railway not said here | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | export | to-infinitive | railway not said here | mohair and wool and berries | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mohair=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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Ankara», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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