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title: In order to stabilise Aden and the surrounding Aden Protectorate fro… — Aden · tree and pragmatics
description: In order to stabilise Aden and the surrounding Aden Protectorate from the designs of the Egyptian backed republicans of North Yemen, the British attempted gradually to unite the disparate states of the region in preparation for eventual independence. Who acts: designs, republicans. A sentence of Wik
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# Aden, sentence 141

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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 order to stabilise Aden and the surrounding Aden Protectorate from the designs of the Egyptian backed republicans of North Yemen, the British attempted gradually to unite the disparate states of the region in preparation for eventual independence.

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**Who acts:** designs, republicans · **What happens:** stabilise, surround, back, attempt, unite · **To what, where:** Aden, disparate states

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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 (designs, republicans), 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:141
# text = In order to stabilise Aden and the surrounding Aden Protectorate from the designs of the Egyptian backed republicans of North Yemen, the British attempted gradually to unite the disparate states of the region in preparation for eventual independence.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	4	mark	_	_
2	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	stabilise	stabilise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Aden	Aden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	surrounding	surround	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
9	Aden	Aden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Protectorate	Protectorate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	designs	design	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	13	nmod	_	_
17	backed	back	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
18	republicans	republican	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Yemen	Yemen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	British	British	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
25	attempted	attempt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
26	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	unite	unite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	disparate	disparate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	preparation	preparation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	eventual	eventual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stabilise** | to-infinitive |  | Aden and the surrounding Aden Protectorate |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **surround** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **back** | past | the designs of the Egyptian |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **attempt** | past | republicans of North Yemen |  |  |  |  | gradually *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **unite** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | republicans of North Yemen *not said here* | the disparate states of the region in preparation for eventual independence |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=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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