Sanaa, sentence 127
From Wikipedia, «Sanaa», 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.
Because of this position, with the city sandwiched between mountains to the east and west, most of Sanaa's expansion in recent decades has been along a north-south axis.
Who acts: most, Sanaa · What happens: sandwich, be, expand
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Sanaa». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (most, Sanaa), 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 | Because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 position | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 Because | fixed |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 position | det |
| 4 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 axis | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sandwiched | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 city | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 city | det |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sandwiched | obl |
| 9 | sandwiched | sandwich | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 position | conj |
| 10 | between | between | ADP | _ | 11 mountains | case |
| 11 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sandwiched | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 east | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 east | det |
| 14 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sandwiched | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 west | cc |
| 16 | west | west | ADV | _ | 14 east | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 position | punct |
| 18 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 33 axis | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 expansion | case |
| 20 | Sanaa | Sanaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 expansion | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Sanaa | case |
| 22 | expansion | expansion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 most | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 decades | case |
| 24 | recent | recent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 decades | amod |
| 25 | decades | decade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 expansion | nmod |
| 26 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 axis | aux |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 axis | cop |
| 28 | along | along | ADP | _ | 33 axis | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 axis | det |
| 30 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 south | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 north | punct |
| 32 | south | South | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 axis | amod |
| 33 | axis | axis | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 axis | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sandwich | past | most of Sanaa's expansion in recent decades not said here | with the city; between mountains; to the east | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present · perfect | most of Sanaa's expansion in recent decades | along a south axis; because this position | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | expand | Sanaa | in recent decades | nom expansion «act transitive»: poss=agent in=obl |
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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