Aden, sentence 220

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.

After the airport battle, the entire city became a battleground for the Battle of Aden, which left large parts of the city in ruins and has killed at least 198 people since 25 March 2015.

Who acts: entire city, Battle · What happens: become, leave, kill · To what, where: battleground, large parts, ruins, 198 people

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 (entire city, Battle), 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	After	after	ADP	_	4 battle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 battle	det
3	airport	airport	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 battle	compound
4	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 became	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 battle	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 city	det
7	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 city	amod
8	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 became	nsubj
9	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 battleground	det
11	battleground	battleground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 became	xcomp
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 Battle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Battle	det
14	Battle	Battle	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 battleground	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Aden	case
16	Aden	Aden	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Battle	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 left	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 left	nsubj
19	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Battle	acl:relcl
20	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 parts	amod
21	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 left	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 city	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 city	det
24	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 parts	nmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 ruins	case
26	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 left	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 killed	cc
28	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 killed	aux
29	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 became	conj
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 least	case
31	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 198	nmod
32	198	198	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	33 people	nummod
33	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 killed	obj
34	since	since	ADP	_	35 25	case
35	25	25	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 killed	obl
36	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 25	nmod:unmarked
37	2015	2015	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	35 25	nmod:unmarked
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	become	past	the entire city	a battleground for the Battle of Aden		after the airport battle	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	leave	past	the Battle of Aden	large parts of the city	ruins		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Theme in ruin=Location
3	kill	present · perfect	the entire city not said here	198 people		since 25 March 2015	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme

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 220