Sanaa, sentence 95
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Disaster struck in the late 1970s — water pipes were laid to bring water into the old city, but there was no way to pipe it out, resulting in huge amounts of groundwater building up in the old city.
Who acts: Disaster, way, huge amounts · What happens: strike, lay, bring, be out, pipe, result · To what, where: late 1970s, water pipes, water, old city, huge amounts, groundwater
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 (Disaster, way, huge amounts), 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 | Disaster | disaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 struck | nsubj |
| 2 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 1970s | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 1970s | det |
| 5 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 1970s | amod |
| 6 | 1970s | 1970s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 2 struck | obl |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 laid | punct |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pipes | compound |
| 9 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 laid | aux:pass |
| 11 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 struck | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 bring | mark |
| 13 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 laid | xcomp |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bring | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 city | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 city | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 city | amod |
| 18 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bring | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 was | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 was | cc |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 was | expl |
| 22 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 struck | parataxis |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 way | det |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 was | nsubj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 pipe | mark |
| 26 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 way | acl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 pipe | nsubj |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 was | compound:prt |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 resulting | punct |
| 30 | resulting | result | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 was | advcl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 amounts | case |
| 32 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 amounts | amod |
| 33 | amounts | amount | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 resulting | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 groundwater | case |
| 35 | groundwater | groundwater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 amounts | nmod |
| 36 | building | build | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 amounts | acl |
| 37 | up | up | ADP | _ | 36 building | compound:prt |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 city | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 city | det |
| 40 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 city | amod |
| 41 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 building | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | participle | Disaster | the late 1970s | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1970s=Location | ||||
| 2 | lay | past · passive | water pipes | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bring | to-infinitive | water | the old city | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme into city=Destination | ||||
| 4 | be out | past | no way | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pipe | way | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | result | gerund | no way not said here | huge amounts of groundwater | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in amount=Location | ||||
| 7 | build up | gerund | huge amounts of groundwater not said here | the old city | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 8 | amount | groundwater | nom amount «possession 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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