Tehran, sentence 12
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Landmarks include the Azadi Tower, a memorial built in 1971 to mark the 2,500th anniversary of the Persian Empire; the Milad Tower, the world's sixth-tallest self-supporting tower, completed in 2007; and the Tabiat Bridge, completed in 2014.
Who acts: Landmarks · What happens: include, build, mark, support, complete · To what, where: Azadi Tower, memorial, 2,500th anniversary, sixth tallest supporting tower, 2007, Tabiat Bridge
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tehran». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Landmarks), 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 | Landmarks | landmark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 include | nsubj |
| 2 | include | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Tower | det |
| 4 | Azadi | Azadi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Tower | compound |
| 5 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 include | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 memorial | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 memorial | det |
| 8 | memorial | memorial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Tower | appos |
| 9 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 memorial | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 1971 | case |
| 11 | 1971 | 1971 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 built | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 mark | mark |
| 13 | mark | mark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 built | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 anniversary | det |
| 15 | 2,500th | 2,500th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 16 anniversary | amod |
| 16 | anniversary | anniversary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mark | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Empire | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Empire | det |
| 19 | Persian | Persian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Empire | compound |
| 20 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 anniversary | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 Tower | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Tower | det |
| 23 | Milad | Milad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Tower | compound |
| 24 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 include | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 tower | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 tower | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 world | case |
| 29 | sixth | sixth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 tower | amod |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 sixth | punct |
| 31 | tallest | tall | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 35 tower | amod |
| 32 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 supporting | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 self | punct |
| 34 | supporting | support | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 tower | amod |
| 35 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Tower | appos |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 completed | punct |
| 37 | completed | complete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 tower | acl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 2007 | case |
| 39 | 2007 | 2007 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 37 completed | obl |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 Bridge | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 Bridge | cc |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Bridge | det |
| 43 | Tabiat | Tabiat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Bridge | compound |
| 44 | Bridge | Bridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 include | parataxis |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 completed | punct |
| 46 | completed | complete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 Bridge | acl |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 2014 | case |
| 48 | 2014 | 2014 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 46 completed | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 include | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | include | present | Landmarks | the Azadi Tower | the Milad Tower obl; the Tabiat Bridge parataxis | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Theme | |||
| 2 | build | participle | a memorial not said here | in 1971 | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1971=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | mark | to-infinitive | the 2,500th anniversary of the Persian Empire | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent anniversary=Destination | |||||
| 4 | support | gerund | self compound | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | complete | participle | the world's sixth tallest supporting tower not said here | 2007 | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | complete | participle | the Tabiat Bridge not said here | 2014 | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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