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title: Tribal and regional favouritism and nepotism remained rife in southe… — Aden · tree and pragmatics
description: Tribal and regional favouritism and nepotism remained rife in southern Yemen, as political forces called on their tribal and regional affiliations during crises. Who acts: Tribal favouritism, favouritism. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Aden» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Aden, sentence 185

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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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Tribal and regional favouritism and nepotism remained rife in southern Yemen, as political forces called on their tribal and regional affiliations during crises.

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**Who acts:** Tribal favouritism, favouritism · **What happens:** remain, call, affiliate · **To what, where:** rife, southern Yemen, political forces, tribal affiliations · **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 (Tribal favouritism, favouritism), 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:185
# text = Tribal and regional favouritism and nepotism remained rife in southern Yemen, as political forces called on their tribal and regional affiliations during crises.
1	Tribal	tribal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	regional	regional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	favouritism	favouritism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	nepotism	nepotism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	rife	rife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Yemen	Yemen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	parataxis	_	_
16	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
19	tribal	tribal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	regional	regional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	affiliations	affiliation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
23	during	during	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	crises	crisis	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | Tribal favouritism and nepotism | rife |  | southern Yemen |  | political forces *parataxis* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rife=Attribute |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | political forces *not said here* |  | favouritism's tribal affiliations | during crises |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **affiliate** |  | favouritism |  |  |  |  |  | nom affiliation «state intransitive»: poss=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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