Azerbaijan, sentence 41
From Wikipedia, «Azerbaijan», 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.
Despite being one of the chief vassals of the Sasanian emperor, the Albanian king had only a semblance of authority, and the Sasanian marzban (military governor) held most civil, religious, and military authority.
Who acts: Albanian king, Sasanian marzban · What happens: be, have, hold · To what, where: semblance
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Azerbaijan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Albanian king, Sasanian marzban), 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 | Despite | despite | ADP | _ | 3 one | case |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 one | cop |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 had | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 vassals | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 vassals | det |
| 6 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 vassals | amod |
| 7 | vassals | vassal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 had | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 emperor | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 emperor | det |
| 10 | Sasanian | sasanian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 emperor | amod |
| 11 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 vassals | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 vassals | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 14 | Albanian | Albanian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 king | amod |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 semblance | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 semblance | det |
| 19 | semblance | semblance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 authority | case |
| 21 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 semblance | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 held | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 held | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 marzban | det |
| 25 | Sasanian | Sasanian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 marzban | compound |
| 26 | marzban | marzban | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 held | nsubj |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 governor | punct |
| 28 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 governor | amod |
| 29 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 marzban | appos |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 governor | punct |
| 31 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 had | conj |
| 32 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 33 civil | advmod |
| 33 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 held | advcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 religious | punct |
| 35 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 civil | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 authority | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 authority | cc |
| 38 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 authority | amod |
| 39 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 civil | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | despite one | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | past | the Albanian king | a semblance of authority | of the chief vassals of the Sasanian emperor | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent semblance=Patient | |||
| 3 | hold | past | the Sasanian marzban | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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