Yemen, sentence 139
From Wikipedia, «Yemen», 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 Mamluk army, with the support of forces loyal to Zaydi Imam Al-Mutawakkil Yahya Sharaf ad-Din, conquered the entire Tahirid realm but failed to capture Aden in 1517.
Who acts: Mamluk army · What happens: conquer, fail, not capture, support · To what, where: entire Tahirid realm, Aden, 1517, forces
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 (Mamluk army), 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 | 3 army | det |
| 2 | Mamluk | Mamluk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 army | compound |
| 3 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 conquered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 support | punct |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 support | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 support | det |
| 7 | support | support | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 army | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 forces | case |
| 9 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 support | nmod |
| 10 | loyal | loyal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 forces | amod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Imam | case |
| 12 | Zaydi | Zaydi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Imam | compound |
| 13 | Imam | Imam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 loyal | obl |
| 14 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Imam | flat |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Mutawakkil | punct |
| 16 | Mutawakkil | Mutawakkil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Imam | flat |
| 17 | Yahya | Yahya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Mutawakkil | flat |
| 18 | Sharaf | Sharaf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Mutawakkil | flat |
| 19 | ad | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Mutawakkil | conj |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Din | punct |
| 21 | Din | Din | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 ad | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 army | punct |
| 23 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 realm | det |
| 25 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 realm | amod |
| 26 | Tahirid | Tahirid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 realm | compound |
| 27 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 conquered | obj |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 failed | cc |
| 29 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 conquered | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 capture | mark |
| 31 | capture | capture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 failed | xcomp |
| 32 | Aden | Aden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 capture | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 1517 | case |
| 34 | 1517 | 1517 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 capture | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 conquered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conquer | past | the Mamluk army with the support of forces | the entire Tahirid realm | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent realm=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fail | past | the Mamluk army with the support of forces not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | not capture | to-infinitive | the Mamluk army with the support of forces not said here | Aden | 1517 | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aden=Theme | |||
| 4 | support | forces | nom support «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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