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title: The transcription of the second cuneiform bu [original emphasis] of… — Yerevan · tree and pragmatics
description: The transcription of the second cuneiform bu [original emphasis] of the word was very essential in our interpretation as it is the Urartaean b that has been shifted to the Armenian v (b > v). Who acts: transcription, our. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Yerevan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Yerevan, sentence 23

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From Wikipedia, [«Yerevan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerevan), 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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The transcription of the second cuneiform bu \[original emphasis\] of the word was very essential in our interpretation as it is the Urartaean b that has been shifted to the Armenian v (b \> v).

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**Who acts:** transcription, our · **What happens:** be, shift, transcribe, interpret · **To what, where:** interpretation, Urartaean b, Armenian v, second cuneiform

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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 (transcription, our), 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:Yerevan:23
# text = The transcription of the second cuneiform bu [original emphasis] of the word was very essential in our interpretation as it is the Urartaean b that has been shifted to the Armenian v (b > v).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	transcription	transcription	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	cuneiform	cuneiform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	bu	Bu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	emphasis	emphasis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	essential	essential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	interpretation	interpretation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Urartaean	urartaean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	b	B	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	shifted	shift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Armenian	Armenian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	v	v	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	b	B	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
37	>	>	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	38	case	_	_
38	v	v	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the transcription of the second cuneiform |  |  | our interpretation |  | of the word; essential *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | transcription |  |  |  |  | as the Urartaean b | tree rules |
| 3 | **shift** | present · perfect · passive |  | the Urartaean b |  | the Armenian v |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to v=Destination |
| 4 | **transcribe** |  |  | the second cuneiform |  |  |  |  | nom transcription «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **interpret** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom interpretation «cognition 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, «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.

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