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title: Things were different when the Abdali gained independence from Lahj… — Aden · tree and pragmatics
description: Things were different when the Abdali gained independence from Lahj and Medina. Who acts: Things, Abdali. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Aden» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Aden, sentence 99

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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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Things were different when the Abdali gained independence from Lahj and Medina.

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**Who acts:** Things, Abdali · **What happens:** be, gain · **To what, where:** independence, Lahj

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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 (Things, Abdali), 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:99
# text = Things were different when the Abdali gained independence from Lahj and Medina.
1	Things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Abdali	Abdali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Lahj	Lahj	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Medina	Medina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Things |  |  |  |  | different *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **gain** | past | the Abdali | independence |  | Lahj and Medina |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent independence=Theme from lahj=Source |

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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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