Damascus, sentence 181
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The Shia Fatimids gained control in 970, inflaming hostilities between them and the city's Sunni Arabs, who frequently revolted.
Who acts: Shia, hostilities · What happens: gain, inflame, revolt · To what, where: control, hostilities
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: who acts (Shia, hostilities), 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 Shia | det |
| 2 | Shia | Shia | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 gained | nsubj |
| 3 | Fatimids | fatimid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gained | nsubj |
| 4 | gained | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gained | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 970 | case |
| 7 | 970 | 970 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 control | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 inflaming | punct |
| 9 | inflaming | inflame | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 gained | advcl |
| 10 | hostilities | hostility | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 inflaming | obj |
| 11 | between | between | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hostilities | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Arabs | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 city | det |
| 15 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Arabs | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 city | case |
| 17 | Sunni | Sunni | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Arabs | amod |
| 18 | Arabs | Arab | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 hostilities | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 revolted | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 revolted | nsubj |
| 21 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 22 revolted | advmod |
| 22 | revolted | revolt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 hostilities | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain | past | the Shia | control | in 970; Fatimids nsubj | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient control=Extent in 970=Attribute | |||
| 2 | inflame | gerund | the Shia not said here | hostilities and the city's Sunni Arabs | between Fatimids = fatimid | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hostility=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | revolt | participle | hostilities and the city's Sunni Arabs | frequently property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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