Sanaa, sentence 327
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.
Before the civil war, Yemen's electricity was primarily supplied by the Ma'rib gas-fired power plant, which came online in 2009 and supplied 27-40% of the country's electricity while active.
Who acts: gas fired power plant, Yemen, country · What happens: supply, fire, come, electrify · To what, where: electricity, 2009
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 (gas fired power plant, Yemen, country), 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 4 war | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 war | det |
| 3 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 war | amod |
| 4 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 supplied | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 war | punct |
| 6 | Yemen | Yemen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 electricity | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Yemen | case |
| 8 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 supplied | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 supplied | aux:pass |
| 10 | primarily | primarily | ADV | _ | 11 supplied | advmod |
| 11 | supplied | supply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 plant | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 plant | det |
| 14 | Ma'rib | Ma'rib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 plant | nsubj |
| 15 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 plant | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 gas | punct |
| 17 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 plant | amod |
| 18 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 plant | compound |
| 19 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 supplied | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 plant | acl:relcl |
| 23 | online | online | ADV | _ | 22 came | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 2009 | case |
| 25 | 2009 | 2009 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 came | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 supplied | cc |
| 27 | supplied | supply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 supplied | conj |
| 28 | 27-40 | 27-40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 % | nummod |
| 29 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 27 supplied | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 electricity | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 country | det |
| 32 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 electricity | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 country | case |
| 34 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 % | nmod |
| 35 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 36 active | mark |
| 36 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 supplied | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 supplied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | supply | past · passive | the gas fired power plant Ma'rib | Yemen's electricity | before the civil war | primarily property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | ||
| 2 | fire | participle | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | come | past | the gas fired power plant Ma'rib | 2009 | online property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2009=Location | |||
| 4 | supply | participle | the gas fired power plant Ma'rib not said here | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent %=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | electrify | Yemen | nom electricity «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | electrify | the country | nom electricity «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
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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