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title: Before gaining independence, Aden comprised distinct sectors: Crater… — Aden · tree and pragmatics
description: Before gaining independence, Aden comprised distinct sectors: Crater, the original port; Ma'alla, the modern port; Tawahi, formerly "Steamer Point"; and Gold Mohur resorts. Who acts: Aden. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Aden» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Aden, sentence 9

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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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Before gaining independence, Aden comprised distinct sectors: Crater, the original port; Ma'alla, the modern port; Tawahi, formerly "Steamer Point"; and Gold Mohur resorts.

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**Who acts:** Aden · **What happens:** gain, comprise · **To what, where:** independence, distinct sectors

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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 (Aden), 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:9
# text = Before gaining independence, Aden comprised distinct sectors: Crater, the original port; Ma'alla, the modern port; Tawahi, formerly "Steamer Point"; and Gold Mohur resorts.
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	gaining	gain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
3	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	Aden	Aden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	comprised	comprise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	distinct	distinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sectors	sector	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Crater	Crater	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Ma'alla	Ma'alla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Tawahi	Tawahi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	formerly	formerly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Steamer	Steamer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Point	Point	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	Gold	Gold	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	Mohur	Mohur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	_
33	resorts	resort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gain** | gerund | Aden *not said here* | independence |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Theme |
| 2 | **comprise** | past | Aden | distinct sectors |  |  |  | Gold resorts *obl* | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sector=Pivot |

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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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