Sanaa, sentence 414
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.
A new Sanaa Airport started construction in 2008 but stopped in 2011 and has not resumed since.
Who acts: new Sanaa Airport · What happens: start, stop, not resume · To what, where: construction, 2008, 2011
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 (new Sanaa Airport), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Airport | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Airport | amod |
| 3 | Sanaa | Sanaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Airport | compound |
| 4 | Airport | Airport | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 started | nsubj |
| 5 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | construction | construction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 started | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 2008 | case |
| 8 | 2008 | 2008 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 started | obl |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 stopped | cc |
| 10 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 started | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 2011 | case |
| 12 | 2011 | 2011 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 stopped | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 resumed | cc |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 resumed | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 resumed | advmod |
| 16 | resumed | resume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 stopped | conj |
| 17 | since | since | ADV | _ | 16 resumed | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | a new Sanaa Airport | construction | 2008 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent construction=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | stop | past | a new Sanaa Airport not said here | 2011 | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2011=Location | ||||
| 3 | not resume | present · perfect | a new Sanaa Airport not said here | since property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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