--- title: Qahtan al-Shaabi dismissed Interior Minister Muhammad Ali Haitham on… — Aden · tree and pragmatics description: Qahtan al-Shaabi dismissed Interior Minister Muhammad Ali Haitham on 16 June 1969, but the latter, with his ties to the tribes and the army, reassembled the leftist forces that had been dispersed by President Qahtan al-Shaabi, and they were able to place him under house arrest on 22 June. 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Qahtan al-Shaabi dismissed Interior Minister Muhammad Ali Haitham on 16 June 1969, but the latter, with his ties to the tribes and the army, reassembled the leftist forces that had been dispersed by President Qahtan al-Shaabi, and they were able to place him under house arrest on 22 June. **Who acts:** Qahtan, forces · **What happens:** dismiss, reassemble, disperse, be · **To what, where:** Muhammad Ali, 16, leftist forces, place 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 (Qahtan, forces), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Aden:167 # text = Qahtan al-Shaabi dismissed Interior Minister Muhammad Ali Haitham on 16 June 1969, but the latter, with his ties to the tribes and the army, reassembled the leftist forces that had been dispersed by President Qahtan al-Shaabi, and they were able to place him under house arrest on 22 June. 1 Qahtan Qahtan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 al Al PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 Shaabi Shaabi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 5 dismissed dismiss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Interior Interior PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Minister Minister PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:desc _ _ 8 Muhammad Muhammad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Ali Ali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 10 Haitham Haitham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 13 June June PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:unmarked _ _ 14 1969 1969 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 latter latter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 ties tie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 tribes tribe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 reassembled reassemble VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 leftist leftist NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 forces force NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 obj _ _ 35 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 dispersed disperse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl:relcl _ _ 38 by by ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 President President PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod:desc _ _ 40 Qahtan Qahtan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 obl:agent _ _ 41 al Al PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 Shaabi Shaabi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 46 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 47 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 48 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 49 to to PART TO _ 50 mark _ _ 50 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 xcomp _ _ 51 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 obj _ _ 52 under under ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 compound _ _ 54 arrest arrest NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod _ _ 55 on on ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 22 22 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 54 nmod _ _ 57 June June PROPN NNP Number=Sing 56 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dismiss** | past | Qahtan | Muhammad Ali Interior Minister | | 16 | | | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ali=Theme | | 2 | **reassemble** | past | Qahtan *not said here* | the leftist forces | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Product | | 3 | **disperse** | past · perfect · passive | Qahtan President | the leftist forces | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent that=Patient | | 4 | **is** | past | forces *= force* | place Qahtan under house arrest on 22 June | | | | able *property* | tree rules | 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, «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. - ← previous: [sentence 166](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Aden/166/) - next →: [sentence 168](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Aden/168/) - ↑ back to [Aden](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Aden/)