Yerevan, sentence 23
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.
The transcription of the second cuneiform bu [original emphasis] of the word was very essential in our interpretation as it is the Urartaean b that has been shifted to the Armenian v (b > v).
Who acts: transcription, our · What happens: be, shift, transcribe, interpret · To what, where: interpretation, Urartaean b, Armenian v, second cuneiform
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 (transcription, our), 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 transcription | det |
| 2 | transcription | transcription | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 essential | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 cuneiform | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cuneiform | det |
| 5 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 cuneiform | amod |
| 6 | cuneiform | cuneiform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 transcription | nmod |
| 7 | bu | Bu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cuneiform | appos |
| 8 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 10 emphasis | punct |
| 9 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 emphasis | amod |
| 10 | emphasis | emphasis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 transcription | appos |
| 11 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 10 emphasis | punct |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 word | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 word | det |
| 14 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 essential | obl |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 essential | cop |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 essential | advmod |
| 17 | essential | essential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 interpretation | case |
| 19 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 interpretation | nmod:poss |
| 20 | interpretation | interpretation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 essential | obl |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 b | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 b | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 b | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 b | det |
| 25 | Urartaean | urartaean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 b | amod |
| 26 | b | B | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 interpretation | nmod |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 shifted | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 shifted | aux |
| 29 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 shifted | aux:pass |
| 30 | shifted | shift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 b | acl:relcl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 v | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 v | det |
| 33 | Armenian | Armenian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 v | compound |
| 34 | v | v | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 shifted | obl |
| 35 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 36 b | punct |
| 36 | b | B | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 v | appos |
| 37 | > | > | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 38 v | case |
| 38 | v | v | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 b | nmod |
| 39 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 36 b | punct |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 essential | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the transcription of the second cuneiform | our interpretation | of the word; essential property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | transcription | as the Urartaean b | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shift | present · perfect · passive | the Urartaean b | the Armenian v | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to v=Destination | ||||
| 4 | transcribe | the second cuneiform | nom transcription «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | interpret | our | nom interpretation «cognition transitive»: poss=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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