Jordan, sentence 74
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 Nabataeans were talented stone carvers, building their most elaborate structure, Al-Khazneh, in the first century AD.
Who acts: Nabataeans, talented stone carvers · What happens: be, build · To what, where: talented stone carvers, most elaborate structure
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 (Nabataeans, talented stone carvers), 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 Nabataeans | det |
| 2 | Nabataeans | Nabataean | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 carvers | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 carvers | cop |
| 4 | talented | talented | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 carvers | amod |
| 5 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carvers | compound |
| 6 | carvers | carver | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 building | punct |
| 8 | building | build | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 carvers | acl |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 structure | nmod:poss |
| 10 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 structure | amod |
| 11 | elaborate | elaborate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 structure | amod |
| 12 | structure | structure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 building | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Al | punct |
| 14 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 structure | appos |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Khazneh | punct |
| 16 | Khazneh | Khazneh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Al | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 AD | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 AD | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 AD | det |
| 20 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 AD | amod |
| 21 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 AD | compound |
| 22 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carvers | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 carvers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Nabataeans | talented stone carvers and the first century AD | the first century AD conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | build | gerund | talented stone carvers and the first century AD not said here | Nabataeans's most elaborate structure | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset structure=Product |
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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