Aden, sentence 350
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 free zone gains its strategic importance from the special location of the port of Aden, as it is located directly on the main trade route around the world and from the Middle East to Europe and America, and is distinguished by the possibility of providing transit services.
Who acts: free zone, possibility · What happens: gain, locate, distinguish, provide · To what, where: strategic importance, special location, zone, main trade route, transit services
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 (free zone, possibility), 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 | 3 zone | det |
| 2 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 zone | amod |
| 3 | zone | zone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gains | nsubj |
| 4 | gains | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 importance | nmod:poss |
| 6 | strategic | strategic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 importance | amod |
| 7 | importance | importance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gains | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 location | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 location | det |
| 10 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 location | amod |
| 11 | location | location | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gains | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 port | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 port | det |
| 14 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 location | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Aden | case |
| 16 | Aden | Aden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 port | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 located | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 located | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 located | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 located | aux:pass |
| 21 | located | locate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gains | advcl |
| 22 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 21 located | advmod |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 route | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 route | det |
| 25 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 route | amod |
| 26 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 route | compound |
| 27 | route | route | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 located | obl |
| 28 | around | around | ADP | _ | 30 world | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 world | det |
| 30 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 route | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 East | cc |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 East | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 East | det |
| 34 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 East | compound |
| 35 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 route | conj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 Europe | case |
| 37 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 route | nmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 America | cc |
| 39 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Europe | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 distinguished | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 distinguished | cc |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 distinguished | aux:pass |
| 43 | distinguished | distinguish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gains | conj |
| 44 | by | by | ADP | _ | 46 possibility | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 possibility | det |
| 46 | possibility | possibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 distinguished | obl |
| 47 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 48 providing | mark |
| 48 | providing | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 46 possibility | acl |
| 49 | transit | transit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 services | compound |
| 50 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 providing | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain | present | the free zone | zone's strategic importance | the special location of the port of Aden | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent importance=Theme from location=Source | |||
| 2 | locate | present · passive | zone | the main trade route around the world to Europe and America and the Middle East | directly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | distinguish | present · passive | the possibility | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | provide | gerund | the possibility not said here | transit services | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition service=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.
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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