Oman, sentence 85
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These groups initially supported Imam Ali during the First Fitna but turned away after rejecting arbitration at the Battle of Siffin in AD 657. around the year 650; the Omani Azd in Iraq would subsequently adopt this as their predominant faith.
Who acts: groups, Omani Azd · What happens: support, turn away, reject, adopt · To what, where: Imam Ali, arbitration, Battle, this
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 (groups, Omani Azd), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 groups | det |
| 2 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 supported | nsubj |
| 3 | initially | initially | ADV | _ | 4 supported | advmod |
| 4 | supported | support | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Imam | Imam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ali | compound |
| 6 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 supported | obj |
| 7 | during | during | ADP | _ | 10 Fitna | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Fitna | det |
| 9 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 Fitna | amod |
| 10 | Fitna | Fitna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 supported | obl |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 turned | cc |
| 12 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 supported | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 turned | advmod |
| 14 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 15 rejecting | mark |
| 15 | rejecting | reject | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 turned | advcl |
| 16 | arbitration | arbitration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rejecting | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 Battle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Battle | det |
| 19 | Battle | Battle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 rejecting | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Siffin | case |
| 21 | Siffin | Siffin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Battle | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 AD | case |
| 23 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rejecting | obl |
| 24 | 657 | 657 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 AD | flat |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 supported | punct |
| 26 | around | around | ADP | _ | 28 year | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 year | det |
| 28 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 supported | obl |
| 29 | 650 | 650 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 year | flat |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 adopt | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Azd | det |
| 32 | Omani | Omani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Azd | compound |
| 33 | Azd | Azd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 adopt | nsubj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 Iraq | case |
| 35 | Iraq | Iraq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Azd | nmod |
| 36 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 adopt | aux |
| 37 | subsequently | subsequently | ADV | _ | 38 adopt | advmod |
| 38 | adopt | adopt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 supported | conj |
| 39 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 adopt | obj |
| 40 | as | as | ADP | _ | 43 faith | case |
| 41 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 faith | nmod:poss |
| 42 | predominant | predominant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 faith | amod |
| 43 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 adopt | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 supported | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | support | past | this groups | Imam Ali | during the First Fitna; year | initially property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ali=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | turn away | past | this groups not said here | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | reject | gerund | this groups not said here | arbitration | the Battle of Siffin | in AD | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arbitration=Theme | ||
| 4 | adopt | would | the Omani Azd in Iraq | this | as groups's predominant faith; subsequently property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent this=Theme as faith=Attribute |
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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