United Arab Emirates, sentence 595
From Wikipedia, «United Arab Emirates», 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.
Meat and rice are other staple foods, with lamb and mutton preferred to goat and beef.
Who acts: Meat · What happens: be, prefer · To what, where: other staple foods, lamb
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «United Arab Emirates». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Meat), 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 | Meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 foods | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 rice | cc |
| 3 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Meat | conj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 foods | cop |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 foods | amod |
| 6 | staple | staple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 foods | compound |
| 7 | foods | food | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lamb | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 lamb | case |
| 10 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 foods | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 mutton | cc |
| 12 | mutton | mutton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lamb | conj |
| 13 | preferred | prefer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 lamb | acl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 goat | case |
| 15 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 preferred | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 beef | cc |
| 17 | beef | beef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 goat | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 foods | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Meat and rice | other staple foods and lamb and mutton | lamb and mutton conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | prefer | participle | lamb and mutton not said here | to goat and beef | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: 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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