Damascus, sentence 92
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The city gained preeminence in southern Syria when Ezron, the claimant to Aram-Zobah's throne who was denied kingship of the federation, fled Beqaa and captured Damascus by force in 965 BC.
Who acts: city, Ezron · What happens: gain, deny, flee, capture · To what, where: preeminence, throne, Beqaa, Damascus, 965
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 (city, Ezron), 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 | 3 gained | nsubj |
| 3 | gained | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | preeminence | preeminence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gained | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Syria | case |
| 6 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Syria | amod |
| 7 | Syria | Syria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gained | obl |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 fled | advmod |
| 9 | Ezron | Ezron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 fled | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 claimant | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 claimant | det |
| 12 | claimant | claimant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Ezron | appos |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 throne | case |
| 14 | Aram | Aram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Zobah | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Aram | punct |
| 16 | Zobah | Zobah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 throne | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Zobah | case |
| 18 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 claimant | nmod |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 denied | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 denied | aux:pass |
| 21 | denied | deny | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 throne | acl:relcl |
| 22 | kingship | kingship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 denied | xcomp |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 federation | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 federation | det |
| 25 | federation | federation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kingship | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Ezron | punct |
| 27 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gained | advcl |
| 28 | Beqaa | Beqaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 fled | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 captured | cc |
| 30 | captured | capture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gained | conj |
| 31 | Damascus | Damascus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 captured | obj |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 force | case |
| 33 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 captured | obl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 965 | case |
| 35 | 965 | 965 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 captured | obl |
| 36 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 965 | nmod:unmarked |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain | past | the city | preeminence | in southern Syria | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient preeminence=Extent in syria=Attribute | |||
| 2 | deny | past · passive | Aram Zobah's throne | kingship of the federation xcomp | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | flee | past | Ezron | Beqaa | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme beqaa=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | capture | past | the city not said here | Damascus | 965 BC | by force | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damascus=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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