Asmara, sentence 70
From Wikipedia, «Asmara», 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 is often the starting point of the Tour of Eritrea cycling competition.
Who acts: city, starting point · What happens: be, cycle · To what, where: starting point, competition
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Asmara». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city, starting point), 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 | 7 point | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 point | cop |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 point | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 point | det |
| 6 | starting | starting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 point | compound |
| 7 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Tour | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Tour | det |
| 10 | Tour | Tour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 point | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Eritrea | case |
| 12 | Eritrea | Eritrea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Tour | nmod |
| 13 | cycling | cycle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 point | acl |
| 14 | competition | competition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cycling | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 point | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the city | the starting point | of the Tour of Eritrea; often property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cycle | gerund | the starting point not said here | competition | vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme competition=Location |
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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