Jordan, sentence 71
From Wikipedia, «Jordan», 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 Nabataean Kingdom controlled much of the trade routes of the region, and it stretched south along the Red Sea coast into the Hejaz desert, up to as far north as Damascus, which it controlled for a short period (85–71 BC).
Who acts: Nabataean Kingdom, Kingdom · What happens: control, stretch · To what, where: much, Hejaz desert, Damascus
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Jordan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nabataean Kingdom, Kingdom), 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 | 3 Kingdom | det |
| 2 | Nabataean | Nabataean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Kingdom | compound |
| 3 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 controlled | nsubj |
| 4 | controlled | control | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 controlled | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 routes | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 routes | det |
| 8 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 routes | compound |
| 9 | routes | route | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 much | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 region | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 region | det |
| 12 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 routes | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stretched | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stretched | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stretched | nsubj |
| 16 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 controlled | conj |
| 17 | south | south | ADV | _ | 16 stretched | advmod |
| 18 | along | along | ADP | _ | 22 coast | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 coast | det |
| 20 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Sea | compound |
| 21 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 coast | compound |
| 22 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stretched | obl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 desert | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 desert | det |
| 25 | Hejaz | Hejaz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 desert | compound |
| 26 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stretched | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Damascus | punct |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 34 Damascus | case |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 up | fixed |
| 30 | as | as | ADV | _ | 31 far | advmod |
| 31 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 north | advmod |
| 32 | north | north | ADV | _ | 34 Damascus | advmod |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 Damascus | case |
| 34 | Damascus | Damascus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 stretched | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 controlled | punct |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 controlled | obj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 controlled | nsubj |
| 38 | controlled | control | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 Damascus | acl:relcl |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 period | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 period | det |
| 41 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 period | amod |
| 42 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 controlled | obl |
| 43 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 44 85 | punct |
| 44 | 85 | 85 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 38 controlled | obl |
| 45 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 46 71 | case |
| 46 | 71 | 71 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 44 85 | nmod |
| 47 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 85 | nmod:unmarked |
| 48 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 44 85 | punct |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 controlled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | control | past | the Nabataean Kingdom | much of the trade routes of the region | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stretch | past | Kingdom | the Hejaz desert | along the Sea coast; up Damascus; south property | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along coast=Location | |||
| 3 | control | past | Kingdom | Damascus | for a short period; 85 – 71 BC obl | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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