Aden, sentence 173

From Wikipedia, «Aden», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

The port of Aden was the largest source of national income for the Republic of South Yemen, but the closure of the Suez Canal by Egypt between 1967 and 1975 – reduced commercial activities in the port.

Who acts: port, Suez Canal · What happens: be, reduce, close · To what, where: largest source, commercial activities, port

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Aden». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (port, Suez Canal), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 port	det
2	port	port	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 source	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Aden	case
4	Aden	Aden	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 port	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 source	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 source	det
7	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 source	amod
8	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 income	case
10	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 income	amod
11	income	income	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 source	nmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 Republic	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Republic	det
14	Republic	Republic	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 income	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 Yemen	case
16	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Yemen	compound
17	Yemen	Yemen	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Republic	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 closure	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 closure	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 closure	det
21	closure	closure	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 source	appos
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 Canal	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Canal	det
24	Suez	Suez	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Canal	compound
25	Canal	Canal	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 closure	nmod
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 Egypt	case
27	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Canal	nmod
28	between	between	ADP	_	29 1967	case
29	1967	1967	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 closure	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 1975	cc
31	1975	1975	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 1967	conj
32	–	-	PUNCT	_	33 reduced	punct
33	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 source	parataxis
34	commercial	commercial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 activities	amod
35	activities	activity	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 reduced	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 port	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 port	det
38	port	port	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 reduced	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 source	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the port of Aden	the largest source		of national income for the Republic of South Yemen; the closure of the Suez Canal by Egypt between 1967 appos	tree rules
2	reduce	participle		commercial activities	the port		vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer activity=Patient
3	close		the Suez Canal by Egypt				nom closure «act intransitive»: of=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.

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Aden, sentence 173