Sanaa, sentence 453
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.
Sanaanis tend to view the city's tap water as contaminated, choosing instead to buy filtered water in containers for drinking and cooking, which costs significantly more.
Who acts: Sanaanis, cooking · What happens: tend, view, contaminate, choose, buy, filter · To what, where: tap water, filtered water, containers, more
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 (Sanaanis, cooking), 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 | Sanaanis | Sanaanis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tend | nsubj |
| 2 | tend | tend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 view | mark |
| 4 | view | view | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tend | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 water | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 city | case |
| 8 | tap | tap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 water | compound |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 view | obj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 contaminated | mark |
| 11 | contaminated | contaminate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 view | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 choosing | punct |
| 13 | choosing | choose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 contaminated | advcl |
| 14 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 13 choosing | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 buy | mark |
| 16 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 choosing | xcomp |
| 17 | filtered | filter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 water | amod |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 buy | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 containers | case |
| 20 | containers | container | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 buy | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 drinking | case |
| 22 | drinking | drinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 containers | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 cooking | cc |
| 24 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 drinking | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 costs | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 costs | nsubj |
| 27 | costs | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 cooking | acl:relcl |
| 28 | significantly | significantly | ADV | _ | 29 more | advmod |
| 29 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 costs | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tend | present | Sanaanis | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | view | to-infinitive | Sanaanis not said here | the city's tap water | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | contaminate | participle | Sanaanis not said here | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | choose | gerund | Sanaanis not said here | instead property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | buy | to-infinitive | Sanaanis not said here | filtered water | containers for drinking and cooking | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | |||
| 6 | filter | participle | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | cost | present | cooking | more | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value |
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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