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title: Aden is a home and a place for ships, and in Arabic the word "Aden"… — Aden · tree and pragmatics
description: Aden is a home and a place for ships, and in Arabic the word "Aden" means residence, and it is said "Aden Al-Balad", meaning the settlement of the country. Who acts: Aden, word. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Aden» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Aden, sentence 18

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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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Aden is a home and a place for ships, and in Arabic the word "Aden" means residence, and it is said "Aden Al-Balad", meaning the settlement of the country.

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**Who acts:** Aden, word · **What happens:** be, mean, say · **To what, where:** place, residence, word, settlement · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Aden, word), 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:18
# text = Aden is a home and a place for ships, and in Arabic the word "Aden" means residence, and it is said "Aden Al-Balad", meaning the settlement of the country.
1	Aden	Aden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Aden	Aden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
20	residence	residence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Aden	Aden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	ccomp	_	_
28	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Balad	Balad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Aden | a place |  |  |  | for ships; a home *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | the word | residence |  |  |  | in Arabic | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot residence=Theme in arabic=Attribute |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | word |  |  |  | Aden and Balad *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **mean** | gerund | the word *not said here* | the settlement of the country |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent settlement=Topic |

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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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