Yemen, sentence 355
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 highest point in Yemen and Arabia is Jabal An-Nabi Shu'ayb, at about 3666 m. Yemen's portion of the Rub al Khali desert in the east is much lower, generally below 1000 m, and receives almost no rain.
Who acts: highest point, Jabal · What happens: be, receive · To what, where: Jabal, 1000 m, rain
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 (highest point, Jabal), 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 point | det |
| 2 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 point | amod |
| 3 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Jabal | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Yemen | case |
| 5 | Yemen | Yemen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 point | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Arabia | cc |
| 7 | Arabia | Arabia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Yemen | conj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Jabal | cop |
| 9 | Jabal | Jabal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 lower | nsubj |
| 10 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Nabi | det |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Nabi | punct |
| 12 | Nabi | Nabi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Jabal | nmod |
| 13 | Shu'ayb | Shu'ayb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Nabi | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 3666 | punct |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 3666 | case |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 3666 | advmod |
| 17 | 3666 | 3666 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 lower | nsubj |
| 18 | m. | M. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Yemen | compound |
| 19 | Yemen | Yemen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 portion | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Yemen | case |
| 21 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 3666 | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 desert | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 desert | det |
| 24 | Rub | Rub | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 al | compound |
| 25 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 desert | compound |
| 26 | Khali | Khali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 al | flat |
| 27 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 portion | nmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 east | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 east | det |
| 30 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 desert | nmod |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 lower | cop |
| 32 | much | much | ADV | _ | 33 lower | advmod |
| 33 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 m | punct |
| 35 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 38 m | advmod |
| 36 | below | below | ADP | _ | 38 m | case |
| 37 | 1000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 38 m | nummod |
| 38 | m | m | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 lower | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 receives | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 receives | cc |
| 41 | receives | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 lower | conj |
| 42 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 44 rain | advmod |
| 43 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 44 rain | det |
| 44 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 receives | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 lower | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the highest point in Yemen and Arabia | Jabal | a Nabi nmod | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | Jabal | 1000 m | 3666 m. Yemen's portion of the al desert in the east nsubj; low property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | receive | present | Jabal not said here | no rain | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Theme |
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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