Aden, sentence 52
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.
Fortifications at Mareb and other places in Yemen and the Hadhramaut make it clear that both the Himyar and the Sabean cultures were well capable of it.
Who acts: Fortifications, Himyar · What happens: make, be · To what, where: Hadhramaut
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 (Fortifications, Himyar), 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 | Fortifications | fortification | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 make | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 Mareb | case |
| 3 | Mareb | Mareb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Fortifications | nmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 places | cc |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 places | amod |
| 6 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Mareb | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Yemen | case |
| 8 | Yemen | Yemen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 places | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Hadhramaut | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Hadhramaut | det |
| 11 | Hadhramaut | Hadhramaut | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Yemen | conj |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 make | obj |
| 14 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 make | xcomp |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 capable | mark |
| 16 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 18 Himyar | cc:preconj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Himyar | det |
| 18 | Himyar | Himyar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 capable | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 cultures | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cultures | det |
| 21 | Sabean | Sabean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 cultures | compound |
| 22 | cultures | culture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 Himyar | conj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 capable | cop |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 capable | advmod |
| 25 | capable | capable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 clear | advcl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 capable | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Fortifications at Mareb and other places in Yemen and the Hadhramaut | Hadhramaut | clear property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||
| 2 | is | past | the Himyar and the Sabean cultures | of fortification; capable, well property | 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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