Yemen, sentence 53
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 Romans were successful in religiously converting and culturally influencing Aksum.
Who acts: Romans · What happens: be, convert, influence · To what, where: Aksum
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 (Romans), 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 Romans | det |
| 2 | Romans | Roman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 successful | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 successful | cop |
| 4 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 7 converting | mark |
| 6 | religiously | religiously | ADV | _ | 7 converting | advmod |
| 7 | converting | convert | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 successful | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 influencing | cc |
| 9 | culturally | culturally | ADV | _ | 10 influencing | advmod |
| 10 | influencing | influence | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 converting | conj |
| 11 | Aksum | Aksum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 influencing | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 successful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Romans | successful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | convert | gerund | the Romans not said here | religiously property | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | influence | gerund | the Romans not said here | Aksum | culturally property | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aksum=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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