Yemen, sentence 173
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 British managed to occupy Aden and evicted the Sultan of Lahej from Aden and forced him to accept their "protection".
Who acts: British, Aden, sultans · What happens: manage, occupy, evict, force, accept, protect · To what, where: Aden, Sultan, protection
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 (British, Aden, sultans), 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 British | det |
| 2 | British | British | PROPN | _ | 3 managed | nsubj |
| 3 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 occupy | mark |
| 5 | occupy | occupy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 managed | xcomp |
| 6 | Aden | Aden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 occupy | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 evicted | cc |
| 8 | evicted | evict | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 managed | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Sultan | det |
| 10 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 evicted | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Lahej | case |
| 12 | Lahej | Lahej | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Sultan | nmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 Aden | case |
| 14 | Aden | Aden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 evicted | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 forced | cc |
| 16 | forced | force | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 managed | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 forced | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 accept | mark |
| 19 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 forced | xcomp |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 protection | nmod:poss |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 protection | punct |
| 22 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 accept | obj |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 accept | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 managed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage | past | the British | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | occupy | to-infinitive | the British not said here | Aden | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus aden=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | evict | past | the British not said here | the Sultan of Lahej | Aden | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent sultan=Theme from aden=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | force | past | the British not said here | Aden | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | accept | to-infinitive | Aden not said here | sultans's protection | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protection=Theme | ||||
| 6 | protect in a quote | sultans = sultan | nom protection «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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, «Yemen», 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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