Aden, sentence 80

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 Ottomans' goal was to prevent the Portuguese from controlling Aden, so the city witnessed difficult days, in addition to the fact that the port of Mocha gained greater importance at the expense of Aden during the sixteenth century.

Who acts: goal, city, port · What happens: be, control, witness, gain · To what, where: Aden, addition, greater importance, expense

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 (goal, city, port), 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	2 Ottomans	det
2	Ottomans	Ottoman	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 goal	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 Ottomans	case
4	goal	goal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prevent	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 prevent	cop
6	to	to	PART	_	7 prevent	mark
7	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Portuguese	det
9	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 prevent	obj
10	from	from	SCONJ	_	11 controlling	mark
11	controlling	control	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 prevent	advcl
12	Aden	Aden	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 controlling	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 witnessed	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 witnessed	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 city	det
16	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 witnessed	nsubj
17	witnessed	witness	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 prevent	advcl
18	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 days	amod
19	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 witnessed	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 addition	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 addition	case
22	addition	addition	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 witnessed	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 fact	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fact	det
25	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 addition	nmod
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 gained	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 port	det
28	port	port	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gained	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 Mocha	case
30	Mocha	Mocha	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 port	nmod
31	gained	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 fact	acl
32	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 importance	amod
33	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gained	obj
34	at	at	ADP	_	36 expense	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 expense	det
36	expense	expense	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gained	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 Aden	case
38	Aden	Aden	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 expense	nmod
39	during	during	ADP	_	42 century	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 century	det
41	sixteenth	sixteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 century	amod
42	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gained	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 prevent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Ottomans's goal				the Portuguese obj; prevent property	tree rules
2	control	gerund	the Ottomans's goal not said here	Aden				vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aden=Theme
3	witness	past	the city		addition to the fact	day		vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent
4	gain	past	the port of Mocha	greater importance	the expense of Aden	century		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent importance=Theme at expense=Asset

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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Aden, sentence 80