Manama, sentence 10
From Wikipedia, «Manama», 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 city lies on low-lying terrain, with reclaimed land extending its coastline in recent decades due to rapid urban and economic development.
Who acts: city, reclaimed land · What happens: lie, reclaim, extend · To what, where: low lying terrain, coastline
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Manama». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city, reclaimed land), 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 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lies | nsubj |
| 3 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 terrain | case |
| 5 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 terrain | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 low | punct |
| 7 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 terrain | amod |
| 8 | terrain | terrain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lies | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 land | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 land | case |
| 11 | reclaimed | reclaim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 land | amod |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 terrain | appos |
| 13 | extending | extend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 land | acl |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 coastline | nmod:poss |
| 15 | coastline | coastline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 extending | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 decades | case |
| 17 | recent | recent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 decades | amod |
| 18 | decades | decade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 extending | obl |
| 19 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 25 development | case |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 due | fixed |
| 21 | rapid | rapid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 development | amod |
| 22 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 development | amod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 economic | cc |
| 24 | economic | economic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 urban | conj |
| 25 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 extending | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | the city | low lying terrain | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on terrain=Location | ||||
| 2 | lie | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | reclaim | participle | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | extend | gerund | reclaimed land not said here | city's coastline | decade | due rapid urban development | vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent coastline=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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