Yerevan, sentence 59
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.
Argishti says, "The land was a desert, before the great works I accomplished upon it.
Who acts: Argishti, land · What happens: say, be, accomplish · To what, where: desert · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Argishti, land), 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 | Argishti | Argishti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 desert | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 desert | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 land | det |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 desert | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 desert | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 desert | det |
| 9 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 works | punct |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 works | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 works | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 works | amod |
| 14 | works | work | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 desert | conj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 accomplished | nsubj |
| 16 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 desert | acl:relcl |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 accomplished | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Argishti | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | the land | a desert and the great works | the great works conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | accomplish in a quote | past | Argishti | a desert and the great works not said here | upon land | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desert=Eventuality |
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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