United Arab Emirates, sentence 605
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.
The race takes place in the evening, and was the first ever Grand Prix to start in daylight and finish at night.
Who acts: race · What happens: take, be, start, finish · To what, where: place, daylight
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 (race), 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 race | det |
| 2 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 takes | nsubj |
| 3 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 takes | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 evening | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 evening | det |
| 7 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 takes | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 first | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 first | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 first | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 first | det |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 takes | parataxis |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 Grand | advmod |
| 14 | Grand | Grand | PROPN | _ | 12 first | obl |
| 15 | Prix | Prix | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Grand | flat |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 start | mark |
| 17 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 first | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 daylight | case |
| 19 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 start | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 finish | cc |
| 21 | finish | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 start | conj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 night | case |
| 23 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 finish | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | the race | place | evening | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | Grand obl; first property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | start | to-infinitive | daylight | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | finish | present | night | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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