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title: By January 1986, Aden was torn apart by the rivalry of two factions… — Aden · tree and pragmatics
description: By January 1986, Aden was torn apart by the rivalry of two factions in the ruling Socialist Party, when President Ali Nasser Muhammad's guards launched a surprise attack on the political party's office in Aden on 13 January 1986. Who acts: guards. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Aden» with its dependency
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# Aden, sentence 186

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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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By January 1986, Aden was torn apart by the rivalry of two factions in the ruling Socialist Party, when President Ali Nasser Muhammad's guards launched a surprise attack on the political party's office in Aden on 13 January 1986.

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**Who acts:** guards · **What happens:** tear apart, rule, launch, rival · **To what, where:** Aden, surprise attack, office, two factions

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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 (guards), 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:186
# text = By January 1986, Aden was torn apart by the rivalry of two factions in the ruling Socialist Party, when President Ali Nasser Muhammad's guards launched a surprise attack on the political party's office in Aden on 13 January 1986.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	1986	1986	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	Aden	Aden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rivalry	rivalry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	factions	faction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	ruling	rule	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	Socialist	socialist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:desc	_	_
19	Party	Party	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
22	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:desc	_	_
23	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	_
24	Nasser	Nasser	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	Muhammad	Muhammad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
27	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	launched	launch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Aden	Aden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	obl	_	_
42	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod:unmarked	_	_
43	1986	1986	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	41	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tear apart** | past · passive |  | Aden |  |  | january | by the rivalry of two factions in the Party  ruling Socialist; apart *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **rule** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **launch** | past | Ali  President's guards | a surprise attack |  | the political party's office in Aden |  | on 13  January | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent attack=Theme on office=Destination |
| 4 | **rival** |  |  | two factions in the Party  ruling Socialist |  |  |  |  | nom rivalry «act transitive»: of=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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