Ankara, sentence 28
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.
Persian sovereignty lasted until the Persians' defeat at the hands of Alexander the Great who conquered the city in 333 BC.
Who acts: Persian sovereignty, Persians · What happens: last, conquer, defeat · To what, where: hands, city, 333
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 (Persian sovereignty, Persians), 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 | Persian | persian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sovereignty | amod |
| 2 | sovereignty | sovereignty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lasted | nsubj |
| 3 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | until | until | ADP | _ | 8 defeat | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Persians | det |
| 6 | Persians | Persian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 defeat | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 6 Persians | case |
| 8 | defeat | defeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lasted | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 hands | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hands | det |
| 11 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lasted | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Alexander | case |
| 13 | Alexander | Alexander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 hands | appos |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Great | det |
| 15 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Alexander | amod |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 conquered | nsubj |
| 17 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lasted | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 city | det |
| 19 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 conquered | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 333 | case |
| 21 | 333 | 333 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 conquered | obl |
| 22 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 333 | nmod:unmarked |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | past | Persian sovereignty | the hands | until the Persians's defeat | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | conquer | past | the city | 333 BC | who nsubj | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient | |||
| 3 | defeat | the Persians | nom defeat «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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