Yemen, sentence 105
From Wikipedia, «Yemen», 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 Ayyubid rule was stable in southern and central Yemen, where they succeeded in eliminating the ministates of that region, while Ismaili and Zaidi tribesmen continued to hold out in several fortresses.
Who acts: Ayyubid rule, sultans, Ismaili tribesmen · What happens: be, succeed, eliminate, continue, hold out · To what, where: southern, ministates, several fortresses
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Yemen». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ayyubid rule, sultans, Ismaili tribesmen), 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 rule | det |
| 2 | Ayyubid | ayyubid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rule | amod |
| 3 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stable | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stable | cop |
| 5 | stable | stable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 southern | case |
| 7 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stable | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Yemen | cc |
| 9 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Yemen | amod |
| 10 | Yemen | Yemen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stable | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 succeeded | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 succeeded | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 succeeded | nsubj |
| 14 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Yemen | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 16 eliminating | mark |
| 16 | eliminating | eliminate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 succeeded | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ministates | det |
| 18 | ministates | ministate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 eliminating | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 region | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 region | det |
| 21 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ministates | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 continued | punct |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 28 continued | mark |
| 24 | Ismaili | Ismaili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 tribesmen | compound |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Zaidi | cc |
| 26 | Zaidi | Zaidi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Ismaili | conj |
| 27 | tribesmen | tribesman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 continued | nsubj |
| 28 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 succeeded | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 hold | mark |
| 30 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 continued | xcomp |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 hold | compound:prt |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 fortresses | case |
| 33 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 fortresses | amod |
| 34 | fortresses | fortress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 hold | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Ayyubid rule | southern | central Yemen conj; stable property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | succeed | past | sultans = sultan | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | eliminate | gerund | sultans = sultan not said here | the ministates of that region | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ministate=Patient | ||||
| 4 | continue | past | Ismaili tribesmen | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | hold out | to-infinitive | Ismaili tribesmen not said here | several fortresses | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fortress=Location |
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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