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title: In 1937, the settlement was detached from India and became the Colon… — Aden · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1937, the settlement was detached from India and became the Colony of Aden, a British Crown colony. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Aden» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Aden, sentence 130

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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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In 1937, the settlement was detached from India and became the Colony of Aden, a British Crown colony.

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**What happens:** detach, become · **To what, where:** settlement, 1937

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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: 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:130
# text = In 1937, the settlement was detached from India and became the Colony of Aden, a British Crown colony.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1937	1937	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	detached	detach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Colony	Colony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Aden	Aden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	Crown	Crown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **detach** | past · passive |  | the settlement |  | 1937 |  | from India | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from india=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **become** | past |  |  |  |  |  | the Colony of Aden *xcomp* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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