Yemen, sentence 133
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The weakening of the Rasulid provided an opportunity for the Banu Taher clan to take over and establish themselves as the new rulers of Yemen in 1454 AD.
Who acts: weakening, Rasulid · What happens: provide, take over, establish, weaken · To what, where: opportunity, clans, 1454 AD
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 (weakening, Rasulid), 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 weakening | det |
| 2 | weakening | weakening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 provided | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Rasulid | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Rasulid | det |
| 5 | Rasulid | Rasulid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 weakening | nmod |
| 6 | provided | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 opportunity | det |
| 8 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 provided | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 clan | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 clan | det |
| 11 | Banu | Banu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Taher | compound |
| 12 | Taher | Taher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 clan | compound |
| 13 | clan | clan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 opportunity | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 take | mark |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 provided | advcl |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 take | compound:prt |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 establish | cc |
| 18 | establish | establish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 take | conj |
| 19 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 establish | obj |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 rulers | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rulers | det |
| 22 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 rulers | amod |
| 23 | rulers | ruler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 establish | advcl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Yemen | case |
| 25 | Yemen | Yemen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 rulers | nmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 AD | case |
| 27 | 1454 | 1454 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 AD | nummod |
| 28 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 establish | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 provided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | provide | past | the weakening of the Rasulid | a opportunity | for the Taher clan | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition opportunity=Theme for clan=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | take over | to-infinitive | the weakening of the Rasulid not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | establish | infinitive | the weakening of the Rasulid not said here | clans = clan | 1454 AD | the new rulers of Yemen advcl | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | ||
| 4 | weaken | the Rasulid | nom weakening «event intransitive»: of=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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