Sanaa, sentence 270
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.
Although these trades were seen as somewhat demeaning for members of the upper classes to take part in, they were still fairly respectable and in some cases sayyids or qadis would engage in them as a main source of income.
Who acts: trades, sayyids · What happens: see, demean, take in, be, engage · To what, where: trades, part, cases
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 (trades, sayyids), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 5 seen | mark |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 trades | det |
| 3 | trades | trade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux:pass |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 respectable | advcl |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 demeaning | mark |
| 7 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 8 demeaning | advmod |
| 8 | demeaning | demean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 seen | advcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 members | case |
| 10 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 demeaning | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 classes | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 classes | det |
| 13 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 classes | amod |
| 14 | classes | class | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 members | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 take | mark |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 demeaning | advcl |
| 17 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 take | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 respectable | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 respectable | cop |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 24 respectable | advmod |
| 23 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 24 respectable | advmod |
| 24 | respectable | respectable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 engage | cc |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 cases | case |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 cases | det |
| 28 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 engage | obl |
| 29 | sayyids | sayyid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 engage | nsubj |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 qadis | cc |
| 31 | qadis | qadi | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 sayyids | conj |
| 32 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 engage | aux |
| 33 | engage | engage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 respectable | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 them | case |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 engage | obl |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 39 source | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 source | det |
| 38 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 source | amod |
| 39 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 engage | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 income | case |
| 41 | income | income | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 source | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 respectable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | this trades | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | demean | gerund | for members of the upper classes; somewhat property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take in | to-infinitive | part | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | trades = trade | still | fairly, respectable property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | engage | would | sayyids or qadis | some cases | in trades = trade; as a main source of income | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as source=Attribute |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Sanaa», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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