Yemen, sentence 103
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Turan Shah conquered Zabid from the Mahdids in 1174, then marched toward Aden in June and captured it from the Zurayids.
Who acts: Turan · What happens: conquer, march, capture · To what, where: Zabid, Mahdids, Aden, Caliphate, Zurayids
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Yemen». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Turan), 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 | Turan | Turan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 conquered | nsubj |
| 2 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Turan | flat |
| 3 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Zabid | Zabid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 conquered | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Mahdids | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Mahdids | det |
| 7 | Mahdids | Mahdid | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 conquered | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 1174 | case |
| 9 | 1174 | 1174 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 conquered | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 marched | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 marched | advmod |
| 12 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 conquered | parataxis |
| 13 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 14 Aden | case |
| 14 | Aden | Aden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 marched | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 June | case |
| 16 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 marched | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 captured | cc |
| 18 | captured | capture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 marched | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 captured | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 Zurayids | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Zurayids | det |
| 22 | Zurayids | Zurayid | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 captured | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 conquered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conquer | past | Turan | Zabid | the Mahdids | in 1174 | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zabid=Patient | ||
| 2 | march | past | Aden | then; june | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward aden=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | capture | past | Caliphate | the Zurayids | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from zurayid=Source |
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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