Aden, sentence 389
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.
Aden has known mail since June 15, 1839, that is, a year after the British occupation, although the official post office was not inaugurated until 1857.
Who acts: that · What happens: know, be, not inaugurate · To what, where: Aden, year, official post office
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 (that), 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 | Aden | Aden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 known | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 known | aux |
| 3 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 known | obj | ||
| 5 | since | since | ADP | _ | 7 15 | case |
| 6 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 15 | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 known | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 1839 | punct |
| 9 | 1839 | 1839 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 15 | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 year | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 year | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 year | cop |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 is | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 year | det |
| 15 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 known | parataxis |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 occupation | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 occupation | det |
| 18 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 occupation | amod |
| 19 | occupation | occupation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 year | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 inaugurated | punct |
| 21 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 28 inaugurated | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 office | det |
| 23 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 office | amod |
| 24 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 office | compound |
| 25 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 inaugurated | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 inaugurated | aux:pass |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 inaugurated | advmod |
| 28 | inaugurated | inaugurate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 known | conj |
| 29 | until | until | ADP | _ | 30 1857 | case |
| 30 | 1857 | 1857 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 inaugurated | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · perfect · passive | Aden | since 15 June | mail obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | that | a year | after the British occupation | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not inaugurate | past · passive | the official post office | until 1857 | tree rules |
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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