Yemen, sentence 425
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.
UAE and Saudi forces were responsible for some of the most shocking treatment of prisoners, including being hung upside down for hours and sexual torture such as the burning of genitals.
Who acts: UAE · What happens: be, hang down, treat · To what, where: upside, prisoners
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 (UAE), 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 | UAE | UAE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 responsible | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 forces | cc |
| 3 | Saudi | Saudi | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 forces | amod |
| 4 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 UAE | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 responsible | cop |
| 6 | responsible | responsible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 some | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 responsible | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 treatment | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 treatment | det |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 shocking | advmod |
| 12 | shocking | shocking | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 treatment | amod |
| 13 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 some | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 prisoners | case |
| 15 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 treatment | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hung | punct |
| 17 | including | including | ADP | _ | 19 hung | mark |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 hung | aux:pass |
| 19 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 responsible | conj |
| 20 | upside | upside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hung | obj |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 hung | advmod |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 hours | case |
| 23 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hung | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 torture | cc |
| 25 | sexual | sexual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 torture | amod |
| 26 | torture | torture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hours | conj |
| 27 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 30 burning | case |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 such | fixed |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 burning | det |
| 30 | burning | burning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 torture | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 genitals | case |
| 32 | genitals | genitals | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 30 burning | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 responsible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | UAE and Saudi forces | for some of the shocking treatment of prisoners; responsible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hang down | gerund · passive | UAE and Saudi forces not said here | upside | hour | down property | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: upside=Patient | ||
| 3 | treat | prisoners | nom treatment «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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