Yemen, sentence 470
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.
Even before the revolution, Yemen's water situation had been described as increasingly dire by experts who worried that Yemen would be the first country to run out of water.
Who acts: experts, Yemen · What happens: describe, worry, be, run · To what, where: water situation, first country, water
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 (experts, Yemen), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 2 before | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | ADP | _ | 4 revolution | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 revolution | det |
| 4 | revolution | revolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 described | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 revolution | punct |
| 6 | Yemen | Yemen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 situation | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Yemen | case |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 situation | compound |
| 9 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 described | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 described | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 described | aux:pass |
| 12 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 dire | mark |
| 14 | increasingly | increasingly | ADV | _ | 15 dire | advmod |
| 15 | dire | dire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 described | xcomp |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 experts | case |
| 17 | experts | expert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 dire | obl |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 worried | nsubj |
| 19 | worried | worry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 experts | acl:relcl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 country | mark |
| 21 | Yemen | Yemen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 country | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 country | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 country | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 country | det |
| 25 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 country | amod |
| 26 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 worried | ccomp |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 run | mark |
| 28 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 country | acl |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 water | case |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 water | case |
| 31 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 run | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 described | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | past · perfect · passive | Yemen's water situation | before the revolution | dire property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | worry | past | experts | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | would | Yemen | the first country | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | run | to-infinitive | experts not said here | water | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out water=Trajectory |
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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