Libya, sentence 272
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 10 September 2023, catastrophic floods due to dam failures generated by Storm Daniel devastated the port city of Derna, killing more than 5,900 and possibly as many as 24,000.
Who acts: catastrophic floods · What happens: dam, generate, devastate, kill · To what, where: failures, port city, 10, 5,900
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 (catastrophic floods), 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 10 | case |
| 2 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 devastated | obl |
| 3 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 2023 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 2023 | 2023 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 10 | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 10 | punct |
| 6 | catastrophic | catastrophic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 floods | amod |
| 7 | floods | flood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 devastated | nsubj |
| 8 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 floods | amod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 dam | mark |
| 10 | dam | dam | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 due | xcomp |
| 11 | failures | failure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dam | obj |
| 12 | generated | generate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 failures | acl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 Daniel | case |
| 14 | Storm | Storm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Daniel | compound |
| 15 | Daniel | Daniel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 generated | obl:agent |
| 16 | devastated | devastate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 city | det |
| 18 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 city | compound |
| 19 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 devastated | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Derna | case |
| 21 | Derna | Derna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 city | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 killing | punct |
| 23 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 devastated | advcl |
| 24 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 26 5,900 | advmod |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 more | fixed |
| 26 | 5,900 | 5,900 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 killing | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 many | cc |
| 28 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 30 many | advmod |
| 29 | as | as | ADV | _ | 30 many | advmod |
| 30 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 5,900 | appos |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 24,000 | case |
| 32 | 24,000 | 24000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 many | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 devastated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dam | to-infinitive | catastrophic floods not said here | failures | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme failure=Destination | ||||
| 2 | generate | participle | failures not said here | Storm Daniel obl:agent | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | devastate | past | catastrophic floods | the port city of Derna | 10 2023 September | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus city=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | kill | gerund | catastrophic floods not said here | 5,900 | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 5,900=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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