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title: The free zone gains its strategic importance from the special locati… — Aden · tree and pragmatics
description: The free zone gains its strategic importance from the special location of the port of Aden, as it is located directly on the main trade route around the world and from the Middle East to Europe and America, and is distinguished by the possibility of providing transit services. Who acts: free zone, p
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# Aden, sentence 350

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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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The free zone gains its strategic importance from the special location of the port of Aden, as it is located directly on the main trade route around the world and from the Middle East to Europe and America, and is distinguished by the possibility of providing transit services.

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**Who acts:** free zone, possibility · **What happens:** gain, locate, distinguish, provide · **To what, where:** strategic importance, special location, zone, main trade route, transit services

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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 (free zone, possibility), 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:350
# text = The free zone gains its strategic importance from the special location of the port of Aden, as it is located directly on the main trade route around the world and from the Middle East to Europe and America, and is distinguished by the possibility of providing transit services.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	zone	zone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gains	gain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	strategic	strategic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	importance	importance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	location	location	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Aden	Aden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
22	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	route	route	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	around	around	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	distinguished	distinguish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
44	by	by	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	possibility	possibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
48	providing	provide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	46	acl	_	_
49	transit	transit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gain** | present | the free zone | zone's strategic importance |  | the special location of the port of Aden |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent importance=Theme from location=Source |
| 2 | **locate** | present · passive |  | zone |  | the main trade route around the world to Europe and America and the Middle East |  | directly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **distinguish** | present · passive | the possibility |  |  |  |  |  | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **provide** | gerund | the possibility *not said here* | transit services |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition service=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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