Syria, sentence 58
From Wikipedia, «Syria», 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.
Ugaritic was a Semitic language loosely related to the Canaanite languages and developed the Ugaritic alphabet, considered to be the world's earliest known alphabet.
Who acts: Ugaritic · What happens: be, develop, consider, know · To what, where: Semitic language, Ugaritic alphabet, earliest known alphabet
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 (Ugaritic), 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 | Ugaritic | Ugaritic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 language | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 language | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 language | det |
| 4 | Semitic | semitic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 language | amod |
| 5 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | loosely | loosely | ADV | _ | 7 related | advmod |
| 7 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 language | amod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 languages | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 languages | det |
| 10 | Canaanite | canaanite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 languages | compound |
| 11 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 related | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 developed | cc |
| 13 | developed | develop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 related | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 alphabet | det |
| 15 | Ugaritic | ugaritic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 alphabet | amod |
| 16 | alphabet | alphabet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 developed | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 considered | punct |
| 18 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 language | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 alphabet | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 alphabet | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 alphabet | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 world | case |
| 24 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 alphabet | amod |
| 25 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 alphabet | amod |
| 26 | alphabet | alphabet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 considered | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 language | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Ugaritic | a Semitic language | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | develop | past | Ugaritic not said here | the Ugaritic alphabet | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alphabet=Product | ||||
| 3 | consider | participle | Ugaritic not said here | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | Ugaritic not said here | the world's earliest known alphabet | the world nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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