Yemen, sentence 188
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 Ottomans appeased the tribes by forgiving their rebellious chiefs and appointing them to administrative posts.
Who acts: Ottomans · What happens: appease, forgive, appoint · To what, where: tribes, rebellious chiefs, Ottomans
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 (Ottomans), 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 Ottomans | det |
| 2 | Ottomans | Ottoman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 appeased | nsubj |
| 3 | appeased | appease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tribes | det |
| 5 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 appeased | obj |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 forgiving | mark |
| 7 | forgiving | forgive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 appeased | advcl |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 chiefs | nmod:poss |
| 9 | rebellious | rebellious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 chiefs | amod |
| 10 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 forgiving | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 appointing | cc |
| 12 | appointing | appoint | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 forgiving | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 appointing | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 posts | case |
| 15 | administrative | administrative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 posts | amod |
| 16 | posts | post | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 appointing | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appeased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appease | past | the Ottomans | the tribes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tribe=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | forgive | gerund | the Ottomans not said here | Ottomans's rebellious chiefs | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Theme | ||||
| 3 | appoint | gerund | the Ottomans not said here | Ottomans = ottoman | to administrative posts | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme to post=Attribute |
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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