Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, sentence 8
From Wikipedia, «Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic», 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 claimed capital city of the SADR is Laayoune (the largest city of the Western Sahara territory).
Who acts: claimed capital city · What happens: claim, be · To what, where: Laayoune
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (claimed capital city), 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 | 4 city | det |
| 2 | claimed | claim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 city | amod |
| 3 | capital | capital | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 city | amod |
| 4 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Laayoune | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 SADR | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 SADR | det |
| 7 | SADR | SADR | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 city | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Laayoune | cop |
| 9 | Laayoune | Laayoune | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 city | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 city | det |
| 12 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 city | amod |
| 13 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Laayoune | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 territory | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 territory | det |
| 16 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 territory | amod |
| 17 | Sahara | Sahara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 territory | compound |
| 18 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 city | nmod |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 city | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Laayoune | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claim speech: other | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | the claimed capital city of the SADR | Laayoune | the largest city of the Western Sahara territory appos | tree rules |
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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