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title: Beginning in 1920, Aden was desalinating seawater to produce table s… — Aden · tree and pragmatics
description: Beginning in 1920, Aden was desalinating seawater to produce table salt. Who acts: Aden. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Aden» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Aden, sentence 320

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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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Beginning in 1920, Aden was desalinating seawater to produce table salt.

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**Who acts:** Aden · **What happens:** begin, desalinate, be, produce · **To what, where:** 1920, desalinating seawater, table salt

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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 (Aden), 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:320
# text = Beginning in 1920, Aden was desalinating seawater to produce table salt.
1	Beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	1920	1920	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	Aden	Aden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	desalinating	desalinate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	seawater	seawater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	produce	produce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | gerund |  |  |  | 1920 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **desalinate** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Aden | desalinating seawater |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **produce** | to-infinitive |  | table salt |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Result |

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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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