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title: They are mostly rocky islands, some of which are surrounded by incom… — Aden · tree and pragmatics
description: They are mostly rocky islands, some of which are surrounded by incomplete coral reefs, and most of them are considered fishing areas. Who acts: governorates, coral reefs. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Aden» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Aden, sentence 368

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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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They are mostly rocky islands, some of which are surrounded by incomplete coral reefs, and most of them are considered fishing areas.

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**Who acts:** governorates, coral reefs · **What happens:** be, surround, consider, fish · **To what, where:** rocky islands, some, most, areas

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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 (governorates, coral reefs), 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:368
# text = They are mostly rocky islands, some of which are surrounded by incomplete coral reefs, and most of them are considered fishing areas.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nmod	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	incomplete	incomplete	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	coral	coral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	reefs	reef	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
23	fishing	fish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	xcomp	_	_
24	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | governorates *= governorate* | rocky islands |  |  |  | mostly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **surround** | present · passive | coral reefs | some |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **consider** | present · passive |  | most of governorates |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **fish** | gerund |  | areas |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=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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