Yemen, sentence 467
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.
Groundwater is the main source of water in the country, but the water tables have dropped severely leaving Yemen without a viable source of water.
Who acts: Groundwater · What happens: be, drop, leave · To what, where: main source, country, water tables, Yemen
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 (Groundwater), 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 | Groundwater | groundwater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 source | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 source | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 source | det |
| 4 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 source | amod |
| 5 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 source | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 country | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 country | det |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 source | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dropped | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 dropped | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tables | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tables | compound |
| 15 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 dropped | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 dropped | aux |
| 17 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 source | parataxis |
| 18 | severely | severely | ADV | _ | 17 dropped | advmod |
| 19 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 dropped | advcl |
| 20 | Yemen | Yemen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 leaving | obj |
| 21 | without | without | ADP | _ | 24 source | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 source | det |
| 23 | viable | viable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 source | amod |
| 24 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leaving | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 water | case |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 source | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 source | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Groundwater | the main source | the country | of water | tree rules | ||
| 2 | drop | present · perfect · passive | the water tables | severely property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | gerund | Yemen | without a viable source of water | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yemen=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.
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