Yemen, sentence 359
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 Sudanian element—characterized by relatively high rainfall—dominates the western mountains and parts of the highland plains.
Who acts: Sudanian element · What happens: characterize, dominate · To what, where: Sudanian element, western mountains
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 (Sudanian element), 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 element | det |
| 2 | Sudanian | sudanian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 element | amod |
| 3 | element | element | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dominates | nsubj |
| 4 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 characterized | punct |
| 5 | characterized | characterize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 element | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 rainfall | case |
| 7 | relatively | relatively | ADV | _ | 8 high | advmod |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rainfall | amod |
| 9 | rainfall | rainfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 characterized | obl |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 dominates | punct |
| 11 | dominates | dominate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mountains | det |
| 13 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mountains | amod |
| 14 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 dominates | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 parts | cc |
| 16 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 mountains | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 plains | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 plains | det |
| 19 | highland | highland | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 plains | amod |
| 20 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 parts | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 dominates | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | characterize | participle | the Sudanian element not said here | by high rainfall | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | dominate | present | the Sudanian element | the western mountains and parts of the highland plains | vn contiguous_location-47.8-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mountain=Co-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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