Libya, sentence 260
From Wikipedia, «Libya», 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.
On 28 August 2020, the BBC Africa Eye and BBC Arabic Documentaries revealed that a drone operated by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) killed 26 young cadets at a military academy in Tripoli, on 4 January.
Who acts: BBC Africa Eye, drone · What happens: reveal, operate, kill · To what, where: 28, drone, 26 young cadets, military academy
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Libya». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (BBC Africa Eye, drone), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 28 | case |
| 2 | 28 | 28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 revealed | obl |
| 3 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 2020 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 2020 | 2020 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 28 | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 28 | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Eye | det |
| 7 | BBC | BBC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Eye | compound |
| 8 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Eye | compound |
| 9 | Eye | Eye | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 revealed | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 BBC | cc |
| 11 | BBC | BBC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Eye | conj |
| 12 | Arabic | Arabic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Documentaries | compound |
| 13 | Documentaries | documentary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 revealed | nsubj |
| 14 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 killed | mark |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 drone | det |
| 17 | drone | drone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 killed | nsubj |
| 18 | operated | operate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 drone | acl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 Emirates | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Emirates | det |
| 21 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Emirates | amod |
| 22 | Arab | Arab | PROPN | _ | 23 Emirates | flat |
| 23 | Emirates | Emirates | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 operated | obl |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 UAE | punct |
| 25 | UAE | UAE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Emirates | appos |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 UAE | punct |
| 27 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 revealed | ccomp |
| 28 | 26 | 26 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 cadets | nummod |
| 29 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 cadets | amod |
| 30 | cadets | cadet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 killed | obj |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 academy | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 academy | det |
| 33 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 academy | amod |
| 34 | academy | academy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 killed | obl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 Tripoli | case |
| 36 | Tripoli | Tripoli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 academy | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 January | punct |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 January | case |
| 39 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 January | nummod |
| 40 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 academy | nmod:unmarked |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 revealed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reveal | past | the BBC Africa Eye and BBC | 28 2020 August | Arabic Documentaries nsubj | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | operate | participle | a drone not said here | by the United Arab Emirates | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kill | past | a drone | 26 young cadets | a military academy in Tripoli on 4 January | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cadet=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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