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title: After the airport battle, the entire city became a battleground for… — Aden · tree and pragmatics
description: After the airport battle, the entire city became a battleground for the Battle of Aden, which left large parts of the city in ruins and has killed at least 198 people since 25 March 2015. Who acts: entire city, Battle. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Aden» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Aden, sentence 220

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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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After the airport battle, the entire city became a battleground for the Battle of Aden, which left large parts of the city in ruins and has killed at least 198 people since 25 March 2015.

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**Who acts:** entire city, Battle · **What happens:** become, leave, kill · **To what, where:** battleground, large parts, ruins, 198 people

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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 (entire city, Battle), 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:220
# text = After the airport battle, the entire city became a battleground for the Battle of Aden, which left large parts of the city in ruins and has killed at least 198 people since 25 March 2015.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	airport	airport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	battleground	battleground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Battle	Battle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Aden	Aden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	nmod	_	_
32	198	198	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
34	since	since	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	obl	_	_
36	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod:unmarked	_	_
37	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **become** | past | the entire city | a battleground for the Battle of Aden |  |  | after the airport battle |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **leave** | past | the Battle of Aden | large parts of the city |  | ruins |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Theme in ruin=Location |
| 3 | **kill** | present · perfect | the entire city *not said here* | 198 people |  |  | since 25  March  2015 |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |

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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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