Doha, sentence 77
From Wikipedia, «Doha», 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 Ottomans held a passive role in Qatar's politics from the 1890s onward until fully relinquishing control during the beginning of the First World War.
Who acts: Ottomans · What happens: hold, relinquish, begin · To what, where: passive role, politics, control, First World War
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Doha». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ottomans), 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 Ottomans | det |
| 2 | Ottomans | Ottoman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 held | nsubj |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 role | det |
| 5 | passive | passive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 role | amod |
| 6 | role | role | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 politics | case |
| 8 | Qatar | Qatar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 politics | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Qatar | case |
| 10 | politics | politics | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 role | nmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 1890s | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 1890s | det |
| 13 | 1890s | 1890 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 10 politics | nmod |
| 14 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 3 held | advmod |
| 15 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 17 relinquishing | mark |
| 16 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 17 relinquishing | advmod |
| 17 | relinquishing | relinquish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 held | advcl |
| 18 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 relinquishing | obj |
| 19 | during | during | ADP | _ | 21 beginning | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 beginning | det |
| 21 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 relinquishing | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 War | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 War | det |
| 24 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 War | amod |
| 25 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 War | compound |
| 26 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 beginning | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | the Ottomans | a passive role | Qatar's politics from the 1890s | onward property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent role=Theme in politics=Location | ||
| 2 | relinquish | gerund | the Ottomans not said here | control | during the beginning of the First World War | fully property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent control=Theme | ||
| 3 | begin | the First World War | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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