Sanaa, sentence 253
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.
This daily chewing tradition starts in the Qat market, with the leaves used for a particular day being bought day of use.
Who acts: chewing tradition · What happens: chew, start, use, buy · To what, where: Qat market, leaves
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 (chewing tradition), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 tradition | det |
| 2 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 3 chewing | advmod |
| 3 | chewing | chew | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 tradition | compound |
| 4 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 starts | nsubj |
| 5 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 market | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 market | det |
| 8 | Qat | Qat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 market | compound |
| 9 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 starts | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 leaves | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 leaves | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 leaves | det |
| 13 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 starts | obl |
| 14 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 leaves | acl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 day | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 day | det |
| 17 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 day | amod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 used | obl |
| 19 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 bought | aux:pass |
| 20 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 leaves | acl:relcl |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bought | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 use | case |
| 23 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 day | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 starts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chew | gerund | daily property | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | start | present | this chewing tradition | the Qat market | with the leaves | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with leaf=Subeventuality | |||
| 3 | use | participle | the leaves not said here | day | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | buy | gerund · passive | the leaves not said here | day | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S» |
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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