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title: The envoys boarded three treasure ships and set sail from Sumatra to… — Aden · tree and pragmatics
description: The envoys boarded three treasure ships and set sail from Sumatra to the port of Aden. Who acts: envoys. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Aden» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Aden, sentence 84

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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 envoys boarded three treasure ships and set sail from Sumatra to the port of Aden.

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**Who acts:** envoys · **What happens:** board · **To what, where:** three treasure ships

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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 (envoys), 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:84
# text = The envoys boarded three treasure ships and set sail from Sumatra to the port of Aden.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	envoys	envoy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	boarded	board	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Sumatra	Sumatra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Aden	Aden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **board** | past | the envoys | three treasure ships and set sail from Sumatra |  |  |  | to the port of Aden | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme ship=Location |

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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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