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title: Ten years later, in 620 or more likely 622, it was captured by the S… — Ankara · tree and pragmatics
description: Ten years later, in 620 or more likely 622, it was captured by the Sassanid Persians during the Byzantine–Sassanid War of 602–628. Who acts: Sassanid Persians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ankara» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ankara, sentence 68

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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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Ten years later, in 620 or more likely 622, it was captured by the Sassanid Persians during the Byzantine–Sassanid War of 602–628.

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**Who acts:** Sassanid Persians · **What happens:** capture · **To what, where:** city

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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 (Sassanid 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:68
# text = Ten years later, in 620 or more likely 622, it was captured by the Sassanid Persians during the Byzantine–Sassanid War of 602–628.
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	620	620	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	622	622	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	captured	capture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Sassanid	Sassanid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Persians	Persian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	during	during	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	Byzantine	Byzantine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	–	–	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Sassanid	Sassanid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	602	602	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	–	-	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	628	628	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **capture** | past · passive | the Sassanid Persians | city |  |  | during the Byzantine Sassanid War | late *property* | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |

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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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