--- title: The wars of Iskander and his eventual defeat against the Timurids, i… — Yerevan · tree and pragmatics description: The wars of Iskander and his eventual defeat against the Timurids, invited further destruction in Armenia, as many more Armenians were taken captive and sold into slavery and the land was subjected to outright pillaging, forcing many of them to leave the region. Who acts: Timurids, Iskander, War. 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The wars of Iskander and his eventual defeat against the Timurids, invited further destruction in Armenia, as many more Armenians were taken captive and sold into slavery and the land was subjected to outright pillaging, forcing many of them to leave the region. **Who acts:** Timurids, Iskander, War · **What happens:** invite, take, sell, subject, pillage, force · **To what, where:** further destruction, Armenia, many more Armenians, slavery, wars, many 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 (Timurids, Iskander, War), 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:Yerevan:113 # text = The wars of Iskander and his eventual defeat against the Timurids, invited further destruction in Armenia, as many more Armenians were taken captive and sold into slavery and the land was subjected to outright pillaging, forcing many of them to leave the region. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 wars war NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Iskander Iskander PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 eventual eventual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 defeat defeat NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 against against ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Timurids timurid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 invited invite VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 14 further further ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 destruction destruction NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Armenia Armenia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 20 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 amod _ _ 22 Armenians armenian NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 25 captive captive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 sold sell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ _ 28 into into ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 slavery slavery NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 subjected subject VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 outright outright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 obl _ _ 37 pillaging pillage VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 forcing force VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 advcl _ _ 40 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 obj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nmod _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 advcl _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 region region NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **invite** | participle | the Timurids *not said here* | further destruction | | Armenia | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent destruction=Recipient | | 2 | **take** | past · passive | | many more Armenians | | | | captive *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **sell** | participle | | | | slavery and the land | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **subject** | past · passive | | the wars of Iskander | | | | to outright; War's eventual defeat against the Timurids *nsubj:pass* | tree rules | | 5 | **pillage** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **force** | gerund | | many of Armenians | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Recipient | | 7 | **leave** | to-infinitive | | the region | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent region=Theme | | 8 | **war** | | Iskander | | | | | | nom war «act intransitive»: of=agent | | 9 | **defeat** | | War | | | | | against the Timurids | nom defeat «event transitive»: poss=agent against=obl | 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, «Yerevan», 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 112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Yerevan/112/) - next →: [sentence 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Yerevan/114/) - ↑ back to [Yerevan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Yerevan/)