Aden, sentence 320
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.
Beginning in 1920, Aden was desalinating seawater to produce table salt.
Who acts: Aden · What happens: begin, desalinate, be, produce · To what, where: 1920, desalinating seawater, table salt
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 (Aden), 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 | Beginning | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 seawater | csubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 1920 | case |
| 3 | 1920 | 1920 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Beginning | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Beginning | punct |
| 5 | Aden | Aden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 seawater | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seawater | cop |
| 7 | desalinating | desalinate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 seawater | amod |
| 8 | seawater | seawater | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 produce | mark |
| 10 | produce | produce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 seawater | acl |
| 11 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 salt | compound |
| 12 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 produce | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seawater | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | gerund | 1920 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | desalinate | gerund | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | Aden | desalinating seawater | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | produce | to-infinitive | table salt | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Result |
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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