Syria, sentence 108
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The matriarch of the family and empress of Rome as wife of emperor Septimius Severus was Julia Domna, a Syrian from the city of Emesa (modern day Homs), whose family held hereditary rights to the priesthood of the god El-Gabal.
Who acts: matriarch, family · What happens: be, hold · To what, where: Julia, hereditary rights
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Syria». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matriarch, family), 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 matriarch | det |
| 2 | matriarch | matriarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Julia | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 family | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 family | det |
| 5 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 matriarch | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 empress | cc |
| 7 | empress | empress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 family | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Rome | case |
| 9 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 empress | nmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 wife | case |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 empress | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 emperor | case |
| 13 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wife | nmod |
| 14 | Septimius | Septimius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 emperor | appos |
| 15 | Severus | Severus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Septimius | flat |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 Julia | cop |
| 17 | Julia | Julia | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | Domna | Domna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Julia | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Syrian | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Syrian | det |
| 21 | Syrian | Syrian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Julia | parataxis |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 city | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 city | det |
| 24 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Syrian | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Emesa | case |
| 26 | Emesa | Emesa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 city | nmod |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 Homs | punct |
| 28 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 day | amod |
| 29 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Homs | compound |
| 30 | Homs | Homs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Emesa | appos |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 Homs | punct |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 held | punct |
| 33 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 34 family | nmod:poss |
| 34 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 held | nsubj |
| 35 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 Syrian | conj |
| 36 | hereditary | hereditary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 rights | amod |
| 37 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 held | obj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 priesthood | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 priesthood | det |
| 40 | priesthood | priesthood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 held | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 god | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 god | det |
| 43 | god | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 priesthood | nmod |
| 44 | El | El | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 god | flat |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 46 Gabal | punct |
| 46 | Gabal | Gabal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 god | flat |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 Julia | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the matriarch of the family and empress of Rome as wife of emperor | Julia | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | family | hereditary rights | to the priesthood of the god | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Theme |
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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