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title: Persian sovereignty lasted until the Persians' defeat at the hands o… — Ankara · tree and pragmatics
description: Persian sovereignty lasted until the Persians' defeat at the hands of Alexander the Great who conquered the city in 333 BC. Who acts: Persian sovereignty, Persians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ankara» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ankara, sentence 28

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From Wikipedia, [«Ankara»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankara), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Persian sovereignty lasted until the Persians' defeat at the hands of Alexander the Great who conquered the city in 333 BC.

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**Who acts:** Persian sovereignty, Persians · **What happens:** last, conquer, defeat · **To what, where:** hands, city, 333

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ankara». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Persian sovereignty, Persians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Ankara:28
# text = Persian sovereignty lasted until the Persians' defeat at the hands of Alexander the Great who conquered the city in 333 BC.
1	Persian	persian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sovereignty	sovereignty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	until	until	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Persians	Persian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	defeat	defeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	333	333	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
22	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | past | Persian sovereignty |  |  | the hands | until the Persians's defeat |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **conquer** | past |  | the city |  | 333  BC |  | who *nsubj* | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient |
| 3 | **defeat** |  | the Persians |  |  |  |  |  | nom defeat «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Ankara», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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