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title: A painted crest of the 24th British army battalion is still visible… — Aden · tree and pragmatics
description: A painted crest of the 24th British army battalion is still visible on the brickwork adjacent to the Gate site and is believed to be the only remaining army Crest from colonial rule still visible in Aden. Who acts: painted crest. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Aden» with its dependency tree and pragmati
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# Aden, sentence 291

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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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A painted crest of the 24th British army battalion is still visible on the brickwork adjacent to the Gate site and is believed to be the only remaining army Crest from colonial rule still visible in Aden.

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**Who acts:** painted crest · **What happens:** paint, be, believe · **To what, where:** brickwork, only remaining army Crest, colonial rule

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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 (painted crest), 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:291
# text = A painted crest of the 24th British army battalion is still visible on the brickwork adjacent to the Gate site and is believed to be the only remaining army Crest from colonial rule still visible in Aden.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	crest	crest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	24th	24th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
7	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	battalion	battalion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	brickwork	brickwork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	adjacent	adjacent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	believed	believe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	remaining	remaining	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Crest	crest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	still	still	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Aden	Aden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **paint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | a painted crest of the 24th British army battalion |  |  | the brickwork | still | visible *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **believe** | present · passive | a painted crest of the 24th British army battalion *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive | a painted crest of the 24th British army battalion *not said here* | the only remaining army Crest |  | colonial rule |  |  | tree rules |

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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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