Vietnam, sentence 60
From Wikipedia, «Vietnam», 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.
In AD 938, the Vietnamese lord Ngô Quyền defeated the forces of the Chinese Southern Han state at Bạch Đằng River and achieved full independence for Vietnam in 939 after a millennium of Chinese domination.
Who acts: Vietnamese lord · What happens: defeat, achieve · To what, where: forces, AD, full independence, 939
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Vietnam». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vietnamese lord), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 AD | case |
| 2 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 defeated | obl |
| 3 | 938 | 938 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 AD | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 AD | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lord | det |
| 6 | Vietnamese | Vietnamese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lord | amod |
| 7 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 defeated | nsubj |
| 8 | Ngô | Ngô | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lord | appos |
| 9 | Quyền | Quyền | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Ngô | flat |
| 10 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 forces | det |
| 12 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 defeated | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 state | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 state | det |
| 15 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 state | amod |
| 16 | Southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 state | amod |
| 17 | Han | Han | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 state | compound |
| 18 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 forces | nmod |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 River | case |
| 20 | Bạch | Bạch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 River | compound |
| 21 | Đằng | Đằng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 River | compound |
| 22 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 state | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 achieved | cc |
| 24 | achieved | achieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 defeated | conj |
| 25 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 independence | amod |
| 26 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 achieved | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 Vietnam | case |
| 28 | Vietnam | Vietnam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 achieved | obl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 939 | case |
| 30 | 939 | 939 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 achieved | obl |
| 31 | after | after | ADP | _ | 33 millennium | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 millennium | det |
| 33 | millennium | millennium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 achieved | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 domination | case |
| 35 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 domination | amod |
| 36 | domination | domination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 millennium | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 defeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | defeat | past | the Vietnamese lord | the forces of the Chinese Southern Han state at Bạch Đằng River | AD | tree rules | |||
| 2 | achieve | past | the Vietnamese lord not said here | full independence | 939 | after a millennium of Chinese domination | for Vietnam | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=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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