Aden, sentence 236
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.
"Adeni music" played a major role in Aden society, and artists in the Aden dialect were called "al-Mutariba", meaning people of music.
What happens: play, call, mean · To what, where: Adeni music, Aden society, artists, people · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 music | punct |
| 2 | Adeni | Adeni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 music | compound |
| 3 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 played | obl |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 played | punct |
| 5 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 role | det |
| 7 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 role | amod |
| 8 | role | role | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 played | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 society | case |
| 10 | Aden | Aden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 society | compound |
| 11 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 played | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 called | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 called | cc |
| 14 | artists | artist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 called | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 dialect | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dialect | det |
| 17 | Aden | Aden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 dialect | compound |
| 18 | dialect | dialect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 artists | nmod |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 called | aux:pass |
| 20 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 played | parataxis |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 al | punct |
| 22 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 called | xcomp |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Mutariba | punct |
| 24 | Mutariba | Mutariba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 al | flat |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 al | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 meaning | punct |
| 27 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 called | advcl |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 meaning | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 music | case |
| 30 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 people | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | Adeni music | Aden society | a major role obj | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=Theme | |||
| 2 | call | past · passive | artists in the Aden dialect | al xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | mean | gerund | people of music | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic |
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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