Qatar, sentence 139
From Wikipedia, «Qatar», 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.
In 2003, Qatar served as the United States Central Command headquarters and one of the main launching sites of the invasion of Iraq to topple the government of Saddam Hussein.
Who acts: Qatar · What happens: serve, topple, invade · To what, where: government, Iraq
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Qatar». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Qatar), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 2003 | case |
| 2 | 2003 | 2003 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 served | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 2003 | punct |
| 4 | Qatar | Qatar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 served | nsubj |
| 5 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 headquarters | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 headquarters | det |
| 8 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 States | amod |
| 9 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 headquarters | nsubj |
| 10 | Central | Central | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 headquarters | compound |
| 11 | Command | Command | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 headquarters | compound |
| 12 | headquarters | headquarters | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 5 served | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 one | cc |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 headquarters | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sites | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sites | det |
| 17 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sites | amod |
| 18 | launching | launching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sites | compound |
| 19 | sites | site | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 invasion | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 invasion | det |
| 22 | invasion | invasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sites | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Iraq | case |
| 24 | Iraq | Iraq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 invasion | nmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 topple | mark |
| 26 | topple | topple | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 served | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 government | det |
| 28 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 topple | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Saddam | case |
| 30 | Saddam | Saddam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 government | nmod |
| 31 | Hussein | Hussein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Saddam | flat |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | past | Qatar | as the Central Command headquarters United States; in 2003 | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent in 2003=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | topple | to-infinitive | Qatar not said here | the government of Saddam | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent government=Patient | ||||
| 3 | invade | Iraq | nom invasion «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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