Oman, sentence 70
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By this account, Malik, with an armed force of more than 6000 men and horses, fought against the Marzban, who served an ambiguously named Persian king in the battle of Salut in Oman and eventually defeated the Persian forces.
Who acts: Marzban · What happens: fight, serve, name, defeat, battle · To what, where: named Persian king, battle, Persian forces, Salut
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Oman». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Marzban), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 account | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 account | det |
| 3 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fought | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Malik | punct |
| 5 | Malik | Malik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 account | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 force | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 force | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 force | det |
| 9 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 force | amod |
| 10 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Malik | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 men | case |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 14 6000 | advmod |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 more | fixed |
| 14 | 6000 | 6000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 men | nummod |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 force | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 horses | cc |
| 17 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 men | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 account | punct |
| 19 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | against | against | ADP | _ | 22 Marzban | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Marzban | det |
| 22 | Marzban | Marzban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 fought | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 served | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 served | nsubj |
| 25 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 Marzban | acl:relcl |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 king | det |
| 27 | ambiguously | ambiguously | ADV | _ | 28 named | advmod |
| 28 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 king | amod |
| 29 | Persian | persian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 king | amod |
| 30 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 served | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 battle | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 battle | det |
| 33 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 served | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Salut | case |
| 35 | Salut | Salut | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 battle | nmod |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 Oman | case |
| 37 | Oman | Oman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Salut | nmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 defeated | cc |
| 39 | eventually | eventually | ADV | _ | 40 defeated | advmod |
| 40 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 served | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 forces | det |
| 42 | Persian | persian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 forces | amod |
| 43 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 defeated | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | by this account; against the Marzban | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | serve | past | the Marzban | a named Persian king | the battle of Salut in Oman | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent king=Value in battle=Location | |||
| 3 | name | participle | ambiguously property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | defeat | past | the Marzban not said here | the Persian forces | eventually property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | battle | Salut in Oman | nom battle «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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