Damascus, sentence 142
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During the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628, the city was besieged and captured by Shahrbaraz in 613 along with a large number of Byzantine troops as prisoners.
What happens: besiege, capture · To what, where: city, 613
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Damascus». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 Byzantine | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Byzantine | det |
| 3 | Byzantine | Byzantine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 besieged | obl |
| 4 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 War | punct |
| 5 | Sasanian | Sasanian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 War | compound |
| 6 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Byzantine | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 602 | case |
| 8 | 602 | 602 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 War | list |
| 9 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 628 | punct |
| 10 | 628 | 628 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 602 | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Byzantine | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 city | det |
| 13 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 besieged | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 besieged | aux:pass |
| 15 | besieged | besiege | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 captured | cc |
| 17 | captured | capture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 besieged | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 Shahrbaraz | case |
| 19 | Shahrbaraz | Shahrbaraz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 captured | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 613 | case |
| 21 | 613 | 613 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 captured | obl |
| 22 | along | along | ADP | _ | 26 number | case |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 number | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 number | det |
| 25 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 number | amod |
| 26 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 besieged | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 troops | case |
| 28 | Byzantine | byzantine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 troops | amod |
| 29 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 26 number | nmod |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 prisoners | case |
| 31 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 besieged | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 besieged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | besiege | past · passive | the city | during the Byzantine Sasanian War | along a large number of Byzantine troops; as prisoners | tree rules | |||
| 2 | capture | participle | 613 | by Shahrbaraz | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: 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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