Yerevan, sentence 176
From Wikipedia, «Yerevan», 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.
After gaining control over Alexandropol, the Turkish army was advancing towards the south and east to eliminate the centre of Armenian resistance based in Yerevan.
Who acts: Turkish army · What happens: gain, advance, eliminate, base · To what, where: control, Alexandropol, south, centre, Armenian resistance, Yerevan
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 (Turkish army), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 gaining | mark |
| 2 | gaining | gain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 advancing | advcl |
| 3 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gaining | obj |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 Alexandropol | case |
| 5 | Alexandropol | Alexandropol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 control | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 gaining | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 army | det |
| 8 | Turkish | Turkish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 army | amod |
| 9 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 advancing | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 advancing | aux |
| 11 | advancing | advance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 14 south | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 south | det |
| 14 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 advancing | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 east | cc |
| 16 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 south | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 eliminate | mark |
| 18 | eliminate | eliminate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 advancing | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 centre | det |
| 20 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eliminate | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 resistance | case |
| 22 | Armenian | Armenian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 resistance | compound |
| 23 | resistance | resistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 centre | nmod |
| 24 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 resistance | acl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Yerevan | case |
| 26 | Yerevan | Yerevan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 based | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 advancing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain | gerund | the Turkish army not said here | control | Alexandropol | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=Theme | |||
| 2 | advance | past · progressive | the Turkish army | the south and east | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards south=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | eliminate | to-infinitive | the Turkish army not said here | the centre of Armenian resistance | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent centre=Patient | ||||
| 4 | base | participle | Armenian resistance not said here | Yerevan | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent |
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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