Yemen, sentence 77
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.
A Himyarite clan called the Yufirids established their rule over the highlands from Saada to Taiz, while Hadhramaut was an Ibadi stronghold and rejected all allegiance to the Abbasids in Baghdad.
Who acts: Himyarite clan, Hadhramaut, clans · What happens: call, establish, be, reject, rule · To what, where: Yufirids, rule, highlands, Ibadi stronghold, allegiance · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Himyarite clan, Hadhramaut, clans), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 clan | det |
| 2 | Himyarite | himyarite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 clan | amod |
| 3 | clan | clan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 established | nsubj |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 clan | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Yufirids | det |
| 6 | Yufirids | yufirid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 called | obj |
| 7 | established | establish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 rule | nmod:poss |
| 9 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 established | obj |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 highlands | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 highlands | det |
| 12 | highlands | highland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 established | obl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 Saada | case |
| 14 | Saada | Saada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 highlands | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Taiz | case |
| 16 | Taiz | Taiz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Saada | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stronghold | punct |
| 18 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 stronghold | mark |
| 19 | Hadhramaut | Hadhramaut | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 stronghold | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 stronghold | cop |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 stronghold | det |
| 22 | Ibadi | Ibadi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 stronghold | compound |
| 23 | stronghold | stronghold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 established | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 rejected | cc |
| 25 | rejected | reject | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 established | conj |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 allegiance | det |
| 27 | allegiance | allegiance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rejected | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 Abbasids | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Abbasids | det |
| 30 | Abbasids | abbasid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 rejected | obl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 Baghdad | case |
| 32 | Baghdad | Baghdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Abbasids | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 established | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | a Himyarite clan not said here | the Yufirids | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent yufirid=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | establish | past | a Himyarite clan | clans's rule | the highlands from Saada to Taiz | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient | |||
| 3 | is a | past | Hadhramaut | a Ibadi stronghold | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | reject | past | a Himyarite clan not said here | all allegiance | to the Abbasids in Baghdad | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent allegiance=Theme | |||
| 5 | rule | clans = clan | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: 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.
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