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title: "Adeni music" played a major role in Aden society, and artists in th… — Aden · tree and pragmatics
description: "Adeni music" played a major role in Aden society, and artists in the Aden dialect were called "al-Mutariba", meaning people of music. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Aden» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Aden, sentence 236

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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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"Adeni music" played a major role in Aden society, and artists in the Aden dialect were called "al-Mutariba", meaning people of music.

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**What happens:** play, call, mean · **To what, where:** Adeni music, Aden society, artists, people · **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: 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:236
# text = "Adeni music" played a major role in Aden society, and artists in the Aden dialect were called "al-Mutariba", meaning people of music.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Adeni	Adeni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Aden	Aden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	society	society	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	artists	artist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Aden	Aden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	dialect	dialect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Mutariba	Mutariba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
28	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past |  | Adeni music |  | Aden society |  | a major role *obj* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | past · passive |  | artists in the Aden dialect |  |  |  | al *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **mean** | gerund |  | people of music |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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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