Armenia, sentence 69
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Its strategic location between two continents has subjected it to invasions by many peoples, including Assyria (under Ashurbanipal, at around 669–627 BC, the boundaries of Assyria reached as far as Armenia and the Caucasus Mountains), Medes, Achaemenid Empire, Greeks, Parthians, Romans, Sasanian Empire, Byzantine Empire, Arabs, Seljuk Empire, Mongols, Ottoman Empire, the successive Safavid, Afsharid, and Qajar dynasties of Iran, and the Russians.
Who acts: Assyria · What happens: subject, reach · To what, where: strategic location, Russians
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Armenia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Assyria), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 location | nmod:poss |
| 2 | strategic | strategic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 location | amod |
| 3 | location | location | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 subjected | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 6 continents | case |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 continents | nummod |
| 6 | continents | continent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 location | nmod |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 subjected | aux |
| 8 | subjected | subject | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 subjected | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 invasions | case |
| 11 | invasions | invasion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 subjected | obl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 peoples | case |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 peoples | amod |
| 14 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 reached | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Assyria | punct |
| 16 | including | including | ADP | _ | 17 Assyria | case |
| 17 | Assyria | Assyria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 reached | nsubj |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 Ashurbanipal | punct |
| 19 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 Ashurbanipal | case |
| 20 | Ashurbanipal | Ashurbanipal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Assyria | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 669 | punct |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 669 | case |
| 23 | around | around | ADV | _ | 24 669 | advmod |
| 24 | 669 | 669 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 Assyria | list |
| 25 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 627 | punct |
| 26 | 627 | 627 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 669 | nmod:unmarked |
| 27 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 669 | nmod:unmarked |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 boundaries | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 boundaries | det |
| 30 | boundaries | boundary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 reached | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Assyria | case |
| 32 | Assyria | Assyria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 boundaries | nmod |
| 33 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 subjected | parataxis |
| 34 | as | as | ADV | _ | 35 far | advmod |
| 35 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 reached | advmod |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 Armenia | case |
| 37 | Armenia | Armenia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 far | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 Mountains | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Mountains | det |
| 40 | Caucasus | Caucasus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Mountains | compound |
| 41 | Mountains | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 37 Armenia | conj |
| 42 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 37 Armenia | punct |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 Medes | punct |
| 44 | Medes | mede | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 Armenia | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 Empire | punct |
| 46 | Achaemenid | Achaemenid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Empire | compound |
| 47 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Medes | appos |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 Greeks | punct |
| 49 | Greeks | Greek | PROPN | Number=Plur | 47 Empire | conj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 Parthians | punct |
| 51 | Parthians | Parthian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 47 Empire | conj |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 Romans | punct |
| 53 | Romans | Roman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 47 Empire | appos |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 Empire | punct |
| 55 | Sasanian | Sasanian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 56 Empire | compound |
| 56 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Empire | conj |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 Empire | punct |
| 58 | Byzantine | Byzantine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 59 Empire | compound |
| 59 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Empire | conj |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 Arabs | punct |
| 61 | Arabs | Arab | PROPN | Number=Plur | 47 Empire | conj |
| 62 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 64 Empire | punct |
| 63 | Seljuk | Seljuk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 64 Empire | compound |
| 64 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Empire | conj |
| 65 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 66 Mongols | punct |
| 66 | Mongols | Mongol | PROPN | Number=Plur | 47 Empire | appos |
| 67 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 69 Empire | punct |
| 68 | Ottoman | Ottoman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 69 Empire | compound |
| 69 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Empire | conj |
| 70 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 73 Safavid | punct |
| 71 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 73 Safavid | det |
| 72 | successive | successive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 73 Safavid | amod |
| 73 | Safavid | Safavid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Empire | conj |
| 74 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 75 Afsharid | punct |
| 75 | Afsharid | Afsharid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Empire | conj |
| 76 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 85 Russians | punct |
| 77 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 85 Russians | cc |
| 78 | Qajar | qajar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 79 dynasties | amod |
| 79 | dynasties | dynasty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 85 Russians | nsubj |
| 80 | of | of | ADP | _ | 81 Iran | case |
| 81 | Iran | Iran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 79 dynasties | nmod |
| 82 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 85 Russians | punct |
| 83 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 85 Russians | cc |
| 84 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 85 Russians | det |
| 85 | Russians | Russian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 33 reached | obl |
| 86 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 subjected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | subject | present · perfect · passive | dynasty's strategic location between two continents | to invasions; dynasty obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | Assyria and Ashurbanipal | the Russians Qajar dynasties of Iran | by many peoples; the boundaries of Assyria nsubj; far property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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