Sanaa, sentence 44
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The Ayyubids gained control of Sanaa in 1175 and united the various Yemeni tribal states, except for the northern mountains controlled by the Zaydi imams, into one entity.
Who acts: Ayyubids · What happens: gain, unite, control · To what, where: control, various Yemeni tribal states, northern mountains
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 (Ayyubids), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Ayyubids | det |
| 2 | Ayyubids | ayyubid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gained | nsubj |
| 3 | gained | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gained | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Sanaa | case |
| 6 | Sanaa | Sanaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 control | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1175 | case |
| 8 | 1175 | 1175 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 gained | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 united | cc |
| 10 | united | unite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gained | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 states | det |
| 12 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 states | amod |
| 13 | Yemeni | Yemeni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 states | compound |
| 14 | tribal | tribal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 states | amod |
| 15 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 united | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 mountains | punct |
| 17 | except | except | ADP | _ | 21 mountains | case |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 mountains | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mountains | det |
| 20 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 mountains | amod |
| 21 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 states | conj |
| 22 | controlled | control | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 mountains | acl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 imams | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 imams | det |
| 25 | Zaydi | Zaydi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 imams | compound |
| 26 | imams | imam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 controlled | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 entity | punct |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 entity | case |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 entity | nummod |
| 30 | entity | entity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 united | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain | past | the Ayyubids | control of Sanaa | in 1175 | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient control=Extent in 1175=Attribute | |||
| 2 | unite | past | the Ayyubids not said here | the various Yemeni tribal states and the northern mountains | into one entity | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent state=Patient into entity=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | control | participle | the northern mountains not said here | by the Zaydi imams | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=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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