Ankara, sentence 68
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Ten years later, in 620 or more likely 622, it was captured by the Sassanid Persians during the Byzantine–Sassanid War of 602–628.
Who acts: Sassanid Persians · What happens: capture · To what, where: city
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 (Sassanid 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 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 later | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 captured | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 later | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 620 | case |
| 6 | 620 | 620 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 later | obl |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 622 | cc |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 likely | advmod |
| 9 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 622 | amod |
| 10 | 622 | 622 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 620 | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 later | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 captured | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 captured | aux:pass |
| 14 | captured | capture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 Persians | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Persians | det |
| 17 | Sassanid | Sassanid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Persians | compound |
| 18 | Persians | Persian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 captured | obl |
| 19 | during | during | ADP | _ | 24 War | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 War | det |
| 21 | Byzantine | Byzantine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 War | compound |
| 22 | – | – | PUNCT | _ | 21 Byzantine | punct |
| 23 | Sassanid | Sassanid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 War | compound |
| 24 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 captured | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 602 | case |
| 26 | 602 | 602 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 War | list |
| 27 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 628 | punct |
| 28 | 628 | 628 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 602 | flat |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 captured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | capture | past · passive | the Sassanid Persians | city | during the Byzantine Sassanid War | late property | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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