Sanaa, sentence 187
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.
Al-Hasabah was formerly a separate village as described by medieval writers al-Hamdani and al-Razi, but by the 1980s it had become a suburb of Sanaa.
Who acts: Al, writer · What happens: be, describe, become · To what, where: separate village, suburb
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 (Al, writer), 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 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 village | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hasabah | punct |
| 3 | Hasabah | Hasabah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Al | flat |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 village | cop |
| 5 | formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 8 village | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 village | det |
| 7 | separate | separate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 village | amod |
| 8 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 described | mark |
| 10 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 village | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 writers | case |
| 12 | medieval | medieval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 writers | amod |
| 13 | writers | writer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 described | obl:agent |
| 14 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 writers | appos |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 al | punct |
| 16 | Hamdani | Hamdani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 al | flat |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 al | cc |
| 18 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 al | conj |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Razi | punct |
| 20 | Razi | Razi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 al | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 become | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 become | cc |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 1980s | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 1980s | det |
| 25 | 1980s | 1980s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 28 become | obl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 become | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 become | aux |
| 28 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 village | parataxis |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 suburb | det |
| 30 | suburb | suburb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 become | xcomp |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Sanaa | case |
| 32 | Sanaa | Sanaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 suburb | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 village | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Al | a separate village | formerly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | describe | participle | a separate village not said here | medieval writers obl:agent | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | become | past · perfect | writer | a suburb of Sanaa | by the 1980s | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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