Yerevan, sentence 249
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.
This is attributed to Yerevan being on a plain surrounded by mountains and to its distance from the sea and its moderating effects.
Who acts: Yerevan, sea · What happens: attribute, be, surround, moderate, effect · To what, where: This, plain
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 (Yerevan, sea), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 attributed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 attributed | aux:pass |
| 3 | attributed | attribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 plain | case |
| 5 | Yerevan | Yerevan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 plain | nsubj |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 plain | cop |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 plain | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 plain | det |
| 9 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 attributed | obl |
| 10 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 plain | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 mountains | case |
| 12 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 surrounded | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 distance | cc |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 distance | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 distance | nmod:poss |
| 16 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plain | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 sea | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sea | det |
| 19 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 distance | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 effects | cc |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 effects | nmod:poss |
| 22 | moderating | moderate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 effects | amod |
| 23 | effects | effect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 plain | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 attributed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attribute | present · passive | This | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | gerund | Yerevan | to a plain and Plain's distance from the sea and sea's moderating effects; Plain's distance from the sea conj; sea's moderating effects conj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | surround | participle | a plain and Plain's distance from the sea and sea's moderating effects not said here | by mountains | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | moderate | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | effect | sea | nom effect «phenomenon 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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