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title: The Ottomans' goal was to prevent the Portuguese from controlling Ad… — Aden · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ottomans' goal was to prevent the Portuguese from controlling Aden, so the city witnessed difficult days, in addition to the fact that the port of Mocha gained greater importance at the expense of Aden during the sixteenth century. Who acts: goal, city, port. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Aden» wit
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# Aden, sentence 80

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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 Ottomans' goal was to prevent the Portuguese from controlling Aden, so the city witnessed difficult days, in addition to the fact that the port of Mocha gained greater importance at the expense of Aden during the sixteenth century.

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**Who acts:** goal, city, port · **What happens:** be, control, witness, gain · **To what, where:** Aden, addition, greater importance, expense

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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 (goal, city, port), 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:80
# text = The Ottomans' goal was to prevent the Portuguese from controlling Aden, so the city witnessed difficult days, in addition to the fact that the port of Mocha gained greater importance at the expense of Aden during the sixteenth century.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ottomans	Ottoman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	goal	goal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	controlling	control	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	Aden	Aden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	witnessed	witness	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
18	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	addition	addition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Mocha	Mocha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl	_	_
32	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	amod	_	_
33	importance	importance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	expense	expense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Aden	Aden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	during	during	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	sixteenth	sixteenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Ottomans's goal |  |  |  |  | the Portuguese *obj*; prevent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **control** | gerund | the Ottomans's goal *not said here* | Aden |  |  |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aden=Theme |
| 3 | **witness** | past | the city |  |  | addition to the fact | day |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **gain** | past | the port of Mocha | greater importance |  | the expense of Aden | century |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent importance=Theme at expense=Asset |

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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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