Yerevan, sentence 113
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The wars of Iskander and his eventual defeat against the Timurids, invited further destruction in Armenia, as many more Armenians were taken captive and sold into slavery and the land was subjected to outright pillaging, forcing many of them to leave the region.
Who acts: Timurids, Iskander, War · What happens: invite, take, sell, subject, pillage, force · To what, where: further destruction, Armenia, many more Armenians, slavery, wars, many
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Yerevan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Timurids, Iskander, War), 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 wars | det |
| 2 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 subjected | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Iskander | case |
| 4 | Iskander | Iskander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wars | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 defeat | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 defeat | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eventual | eventual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 defeat | amod |
| 8 | defeat | defeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 subjected | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | against | against | ADP | _ | 11 Timurids | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Timurids | det |
| 11 | Timurids | timurid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 defeat | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 invited | punct |
| 13 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 Timurids | acl |
| 14 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 destruction | amod |
| 15 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 invited | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Armenia | case |
| 17 | Armenia | Armenia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 invited | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 taken | punct |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 taken | mark |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Armenians | amod |
| 21 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 Armenians | amod |
| 22 | Armenians | armenian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 taken | aux:pass |
| 24 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 invited | conj |
| 25 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 taken | xcomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 sold | cc |
| 27 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 taken | conj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 slavery | case |
| 29 | slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sold | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 land | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 land | det |
| 32 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 slavery | conj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 subjected | aux:pass |
| 34 | subjected | subject | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 outright | case |
| 36 | outright | outright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 subjected | obl |
| 37 | pillaging | pillage | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 subjected | advcl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 forcing | punct |
| 39 | forcing | force | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 pillaging | advcl |
| 40 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 forcing | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 them | case |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 many | nmod |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 leave | mark |
| 44 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 many | advcl |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 region | det |
| 46 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 leave | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 subjected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | participle | the Timurids not said here | further destruction | Armenia | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent destruction=Recipient | |||
| 2 | take | past · passive | many more Armenians | captive property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sell | participle | slavery and the land | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | subject | past · passive | the wars of Iskander | to outright; War's eventual defeat against the Timurids nsubj:pass | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pillage | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | force | gerund | many of Armenians | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Recipient | |||||
| 7 | leave | to-infinitive | the region | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent region=Theme | |||||
| 8 | war | Iskander | nom war «act intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 9 | defeat | War | against the Timurids | nom defeat «event transitive»: poss=agent against=obl |
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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