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title: It is the capital and principal part of Aden Governorate, encompassi… — Aden · tree and pragmatics
description: It is the capital and principal part of Aden Governorate, encompassing eight districts. Who acts: population. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Aden» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Aden, sentence 5

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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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It is the capital and principal part of Aden Governorate, encompassing eight districts.

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**Who acts:** population · **What happens:** be, encompass · **To what, where:** capital, eight districts

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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 (population), 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:5
# text = It is the capital and principal part of Aden Governorate, encompassing eight districts.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Aden	Aden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	Governorate	Governorate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	encompassing	encompass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
13	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	districts	district	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | population | the capital and principal part of Aden |  |  |  | principal part of Aden *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **encompass** | gerund | population *not said here* | eight districts |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot district=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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