Tbilisi, sentence 70
From Wikipedia, «Tbilisi», 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.
Despite this agreement, the city was captured and devastated in 1795 by the Iranian Qajar ruler Agha Mohammad Khan.
What happens: capture, devastate · To what, where: city, 1795
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tbilisi». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Despite | despite | ADP | _ | 3 agreement | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 agreement | det |
| 3 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 captured | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreement | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 captured | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 captured | aux:pass |
| 8 | captured | capture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 devastated | cc |
| 10 | devastated | devastate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 captured | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 1795 | case |
| 12 | 1795 | 1795 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 devastated | obl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 ruler | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ruler | det |
| 15 | Iranian | Iranian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ruler | amod |
| 16 | Qajar | Qajar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 ruler | compound |
| 17 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 devastated | obl:agent |
| 18 | Agha | Agha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 ruler | appos |
| 19 | Mohammad | Mohammad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Agha | flat |
| 20 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Agha | flat |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 captured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | capture | past · passive | the city | despite this agreement | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | devastate | participle | 1795 | the Iranian Qajar ruler obl:agent | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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