--- title: Its strategic location between two continents has subjected it to in… — Armenia · tree and pragmatics description: Its strategic location between two continents has subjected it to invasions by many peoples, including Assyria (under Ashurbanipal, at around 669–627 BC, the boundaries of Assyria reached as far as Armenia and the Caucasus Mountains), Medes, Achaemenid Empire, Greeks, Parthians, Romans, Sasanian Emp --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Armenia/69/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Armenia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Armenia/) / 69 # Armenia, sentence 69 From Wikipedia, [«Armenia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia), 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. Its strategic location between two continents has subjected it to invasions by many peoples, including Assyria (under Ashurbanipal, at around 669–627 BC, the boundaries of Assyria reached as far as Armenia and the Caucasus Mountains), Medes, Achaemenid Empire, Greeks, Parthians, Romans, Sasanian Empire, Byzantine Empire, Arabs, Seljuk Empire, Mongols, Ottoman Empire, the successive Safavid, Afsharid, and Qajar dynasties of Iran, and the Russians. **Who acts:** Assyria · **What happens:** subject, reach · **To what, where:** strategic location, Russians This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Armenia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Assyria), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Armenia:69 # text = Its strategic location between two continents has subjected it to invasions by many peoples, including Assyria (under Ashurbanipal, at around 669–627 BC, the boundaries of Assyria reached as far as Armenia and the Caucasus Mountains), Medes, Achaemenid Empire, Greeks, Parthians, Romans, Sasanian Empire, Byzantine Empire, Arabs, Seljuk Empire, Mongols, Ottoman Empire, the successive Safavid, Afsharid, and Qajar dynasties of Iran, and the Russians. 1 Its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 strategic strategic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 location location NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 between between ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 continents continent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 subjected subject VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 invasions invasion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 peoples people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 including including ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Assyria Assyria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 18 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 under under ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Ashurbanipal Ashurbanipal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 around around ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 669 669 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 list _ SpaceAfter=No 25 – - PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 627 627 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nmod:unmarked _ _ 27 BC BC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 boundaries boundary NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Assyria Assyria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 34 as as ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 33 advmod _ _ 36 as as ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Armenia Armenia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 Caucasus Caucasus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 Mountains Mountain PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 Medes mede NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 Achaemenid Achaemenid PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 Empire Empire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 49 Greeks Greek PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 47 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 51 Parthians Parthian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 47 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 53 Romans Roman PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 47 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 55 Sasanian Sasanian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 56 compound _ _ 56 Empire Empire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 58 Byzantine Byzantine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 59 compound _ _ 59 Empire Empire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 61 Arabs Arab PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 47 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 63 Seljuk Seljuk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 64 compound _ _ 64 Empire Empire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 65 , , PUNCT , _ 66 punct _ _ 66 Mongols Mongol PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 47 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 67 , , PUNCT , _ 69 punct _ _ 68 Ottoman Ottoman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 69 compound _ _ 69 Empire Empire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 70 , , PUNCT , _ 73 punct _ _ 71 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 73 det _ _ 72 successive successive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 73 amod _ _ 73 Safavid Safavid PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 74 , , PUNCT , _ 75 punct _ _ 75 Afsharid Afsharid PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 76 , , PUNCT , _ 85 punct _ _ 77 and and CCONJ CC _ 85 cc _ _ 78 Qajar qajar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 79 amod _ _ 79 dynasties dynasty NOUN NNS Number=Plur 85 nsubj _ _ 80 of of ADP IN _ 81 case _ _ 81 Iran Iran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 79 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 82 , , PUNCT , _ 85 punct _ _ 83 and and CCONJ CC _ 85 cc _ _ 84 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 85 det _ _ 85 Russians Russian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 86 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **subject** | present · perfect · passive | | dynasty's strategic location between two continents | | | | to invasions; dynasty *obj* | tree rules | | 2 | **reach** | past | Assyria and Ashurbanipal | the Russians Qajar dynasties of Iran | | | | by many peoples; the boundaries of Assyria *nsubj*; far *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Armenia», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Armenia/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Armenia/70/) - ↑ back to [Armenia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Armenia/)