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title: The port of Aden was the largest source of national income for the R… — Aden · tree and pragmatics
description: The port of Aden was the largest source of national income for the Republic of South Yemen, but the closure of the Suez Canal by Egypt between 1967 and 1975 – reduced commercial activities in the port. Who acts: port, Suez Canal. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Aden» with its dependency tree and pragmati
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# Aden, sentence 173

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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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The port of Aden was the largest source of national income for the Republic of South Yemen, but the closure of the Suez Canal by Egypt between 1967 and 1975 – reduced commercial activities in the port.

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**Who acts:** port, Suez Canal · **What happens:** be, reduce, close · **To what, where:** largest source, commercial activities, port

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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 (port, Suez Canal), 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:173
# text = The port of Aden was the largest source of national income for the Republic of South Yemen, but the closure of the Suez Canal by Egypt between 1967 and 1975 – reduced commercial activities in the port.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Aden	Aden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	income	income	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Yemen	Yemen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	closure	closure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Suez	Suez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Canal	Canal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	between	between	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	1967	1967	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	1975	1975	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	conj	_	_
32	–	-	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
33	reduced	reduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
34	commercial	commercial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	activities	activity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the port of Aden | the largest source |  |  |  | of national income for the Republic of South Yemen; the closure of the Suez Canal by Egypt between 1967 *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reduce** | participle |  | commercial activities |  | the port |  |  | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer activity=Patient |
| 3 | **close** |  | the Suez Canal by Egypt |  |  |  |  |  | nom closure «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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