Sanaa, sentence 94
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.
Meanwhile, the old city, with its unpaved streets, poor drainage, lack of water and sewer systems, and litter (from the use of manufactured products, which was becoming increasingly common), was becoming increasingly unattractive to residents.
Who acts: old city, use · What happens: sewer, manufacture, become, lack, use · To what, where: systems, water, manufactured products
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 (old city, use), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 40 becoming | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meanwhile | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 city | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 city | amod |
| 5 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 becoming | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 streets | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 streets | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 streets | nmod:poss |
| 9 | unpaved | unpaved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 streets | amod |
| 10 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 city | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 drainage | punct |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 drainage | amod |
| 13 | drainage | drainage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 streets | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lack | punct |
| 15 | lack | lack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drainage | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 water | case |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lack | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sewer | cc |
| 19 | sewer | sewer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 streets | conj |
| 20 | systems | system | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sewer | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 litter | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 litter | cc |
| 23 | litter | litter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 city | conj |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 use | punct |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 use | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 use | det |
| 27 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 litter | appos |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 products | case |
| 29 | manufactured | manufacture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 products | amod |
| 30 | products | product | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 use | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 becoming | punct |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 becoming | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 becoming | aux |
| 34 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 use | advcl |
| 35 | increasingly | increasingly | ADV | _ | 36 common | advmod |
| 36 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 becoming | xcomp |
| 37 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 use | punct |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 city | punct |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 becoming | aux |
| 40 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 41 | increasingly | increasingly | ADV | _ | 42 unattractive | advmod |
| 42 | unattractive | unattractive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 becoming | xcomp |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 residents | case |
| 44 | residents | resident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 unattractive | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 40 becoming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sewer | present | the old city and litter not said here | systems | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | manufacture | participle | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | become | past · progressive | the use of manufactured products | common property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | become | past · progressive | the old city and litter | meanwhile, unattractive property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | lack | water | nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | use | manufactured products | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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