Yemen, sentence 147
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 Mamluks therefore sent an army under Hussein al-Kurdi to fight the intruders The Mamluk sultan went to Zabid in 1515 and entered into diplomatic talks with the Tahiri sultan 'Amir bin Abdulwahab for money that would be needed for the jihad against the Portuguese.
Who acts: Mamluks, Mamluk sultan · What happens: send, fight, go, enter, need · To what, where: army, Hussein al, intruders, Zabid, 1515, diplomatic talks
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 (Mamluks, Mamluk sultan), 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 Mamluks | det |
| 2 | Mamluks | mamluk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 4 sent | advmod |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 army | det |
| 6 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obj |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 al | case |
| 8 | Hussein | Hussein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 al | compound |
| 9 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 al | punct |
| 11 | Kurdi | Kurdi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 al | flat |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 fight | mark |
| 13 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sent | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 intruders | det |
| 15 | intruders | intruder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fight | obj |
| 16 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sultan | det |
| 17 | Mamluk | Mamluk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 sultan | compound |
| 18 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 intruders | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Zabid | case |
| 21 | Zabid | Zabid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 1515 | case |
| 23 | 1515 | 1515 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 went | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 entered | cc |
| 25 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 went | conj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 talks | case |
| 27 | diplomatic | diplomatic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 talks | amod |
| 28 | talks | talk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 entered | obl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 sultan | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 sultan | det |
| 31 | Tahiri | Tahiri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 sultan | compound |
| 32 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 entered | obl |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 Amir | punct |
| 34 | Amir | Amir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 sultan | appos |
| 35 | bin | Bin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Amir | flat |
| 36 | Abdulwahab | Abdulwahab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Amir | flat |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 money | case |
| 38 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 entered | obl |
| 39 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 needed | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 needed | aux |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 needed | aux:pass |
| 42 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 money | acl:relcl |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 jihad | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 jihad | det |
| 45 | jihad | jihad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 needed | obl |
| 46 | against | against | ADP | _ | 48 Portuguese | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Portuguese | det |
| 48 | Portuguese | Portuguese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 jihad | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the Mamluks | a army | Hussein al | therefore property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Theme | ||
| 2 | fight | to-infinitive | the Mamluks not said here | the intruders | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intruder=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the Mamluk sultan | the intruders not said here | Zabid | 1515 | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location intruder=Theme | ||
| 4 | enter | past | the Mamluk sultan not said here | diplomatic talks | with the Tahiri sultan; for money | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into talk=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | need | would · passive | money | for the jihad against the Portuguese | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |
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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