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title: Then the Fadl family attacked Aden in 1836. — Aden · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Fadl family attacked Aden in 1836. Who acts: Fadl family. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Aden» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Aden, sentence 104

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From Wikipedia, [«Aden»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aden), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Then the Fadl family attacked Aden in 1836.

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**Who acts:** Fadl family · **What happens:** attack · **To what, where:** Aden, 1836

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Aden». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fadl family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Aden:104
# text = Then the Fadl family attacked Aden in 1836.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Fadl	Fadl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	attacked	attack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Aden	Aden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1836	1836	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attack** | past | the Fadl family | Aden |  | 1836 | then |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aden=Patient |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Aden», 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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