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title: In 1421, China's Ming dynasty Yongle Emperor ordered principal envoy… — Aden · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1421, China's Ming dynasty Yongle Emperor ordered principal envoy grand eunuch Li Xing and grand eunuch Zhou Man of Zheng He's fleet to convey an imperial edict with hats and robes to bestow on the king of Aden. Who acts: Yongle. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Aden» with its dependency tree and pragm
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# Aden, sentence 83

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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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In 1421, China's Ming dynasty Yongle Emperor ordered principal envoy grand eunuch Li Xing and grand eunuch Zhou Man of Zheng He's fleet to convey an imperial edict with hats and robes to bestow on the king of Aden.

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**Who acts:** Yongle · **What happens:** order, be, convey, bestow · **To what, where:** principal envoy grand eunuch, 1421, imperial edict

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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 (Yongle), 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:83
# text = In 1421, China's Ming dynasty Yongle Emperor ordered principal envoy grand eunuch Li Xing and grand eunuch Zhou Man of Zheng He's fleet to convey an imperial edict with hats and robes to bestow on the king of Aden.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1421	1421	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	Ming	Ming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Yongle	Yongle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	envoy	envoy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	eunuch	eunuch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	Li	Li	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
16	Xing	Xing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	eunuch	eunuch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
20	Zhou	Zhou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Zheng	Zheng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	fleet	fleet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	convey	convey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	imperial	imperial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	edict	edict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	hats	hat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	bestow	bestow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Aden	Aden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | Yongle  China's Ming dynasty |  | principal envoy grand eunuch and grand eunuch | 1421 |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eunuch=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Yongle |  |  |  |  | fleet *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **convey** | to-infinitive | Yongle *not said here* | a imperial edict |  |  |  | with hats and robes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent edict=Topic |
| 4 | **bestow** | to-infinitive | Yongle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the king of Aden | 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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