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Aden, sentence 246

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.

Its members were appointed by the Governor-General of Aden, and all of its members were English, headed by the English Governor of Aden, Bernard Reilly, as sponsor.

Who acts: Governor General, all · What happens: appoint, be, head · To what, where: members

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 (Governor General, all), 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

nmod:possnsubj:passaux:passcasedetcompoundpunctoblcasenmodpunctccnsubjcasenmod:possnmodcopparataxispunctconjcasedetcompoundobl:agentcasenmodpunctconjflatpunctcaseoblpunctrootItsPRONmembersNOUNwereAUXappointedVERBbyADPtheDETGovernorPROPN-PUNCTGeneralPROPNofADPAdenPROPN,PUNCTandCCONJallDETofADPitsPRONmembersNOUNwereAUXEnglishADJ,PUNCTheadedVERBbyADPtheDETEnglishPROPNGovernorPROPNofADPAdenPROPN,PUNCTBernardPROPNReillyPROPN,PUNCTasADPsponsorNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ItsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs2 membersnmod:poss
2membersmemberNOUNNumber=Plur4 appointednsubj:pass
3werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 appointedaux:pass
4appointedappointVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
5bybyADP_9 Generalcase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 Generaldet
7GovernorGovernorPROPNNumber=Sing9 Generalcompound
8--PUNCT_7 Governorpunct
9GeneralGeneralPROPNNumber=Sing4 appointedobl
10ofofADP_11 Adencase
11AdenAdenPROPNNumber=Sing9 Generalnmod
12,,PUNCT_19 Englishpunct
13andandCCONJ_19 Englishcc
14allallDETPronType=Tot19 Englishnsubj
15ofofADP_17 memberscase
16itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 membersnmod:poss
17membersmemberNOUNNumber=Plur14 allnmod
18werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 Englishcop
19EnglishEnglishADJ_4 appointedparataxis
20,,PUNCT_21 headedpunct
21headedheadVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass19 Englishconj
22bybyADP_25 Governorcase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 Governordet
24EnglishEnglishPROPNNumber=Sing25 Governorcompound
25GovernorGovernorPROPNNumber=Sing21 headedobl:agent
26ofofADP_27 Adencase
27AdenAdenPROPNNumber=Sing25 Governornmod
28,,PUNCT_29 Bernardpunct
29BernardBernardPROPNNumber=Sing25 Governorconj
30ReillyReillyPROPNNumber=Sing29 Bernardflat
31,,PUNCT_33 sponsorpunct
32asasADP_33 sponsorcase
33sponsorsponsorNOUNNumber=Sing4 appointedobl
34..PUNCT_4 appointedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1appointpast · passivethe Governor General of Adenassociation's membersas sponsorvn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Theme as sponsor=Attribute
2ispastall of association's membersenglish propertytree rules
3headparticipleall of association's members not said herethe English Governor of Aden and Bernard obl:agentvn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Aden», 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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