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title: Aden has known mail since June 15, 1839, that is, a year after the B… — Aden · tree and pragmatics
description: Aden has known mail since June 15, 1839, that is, a year after the British occupation, although the official post office was not inaugurated until 1857. Who acts: that. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Aden» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Aden, sentence 389

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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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Aden has known mail since June 15, 1839, that is, a year after the British occupation, although the official post office was not inaugurated until 1857.

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**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** know, be, not inaugurate · **To what, where:** Aden, year, official post office

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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 (that), 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:389
# text = Aden has known mail since June 15, 1839, that is, a year after the British occupation, although the official post office was not inaugurated until 1857.
1	Aden	Aden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	mail	mail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	since	since	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:unmarked	_	_
7	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	1839	1839	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	occupation	occupation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	inaugurated	inaugurate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
29	until	until	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	1857	1857	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present · perfect · passive |  | Aden |  |  | since 15  June | mail *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | that | a year |  |  | after the British occupation |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **inaugurate** | past · passive |  | the official post office |  |  | until 1857 |  | 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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