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title: Because of this position, with the city sandwiched between mountains… — Sanaa · tree and pragmatics
description: Because of this position, with the city sandwiched between mountains to the east and west, most of Sanaa's expansion in recent decades has been along a north-south axis. Who acts: most, Sanaa. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sanaa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sanaa, sentence 127

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From Wikipedia, [«Sanaa»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanaa), 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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Because of this position, with the city sandwiched between mountains to the east and west, most of Sanaa's expansion in recent decades has been along a north-south axis.

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**Who acts:** most, Sanaa · **What happens:** sandwich, be, expand

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Sanaa». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (most, Sanaa), 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:Sanaa:127
# text = Because of this position, with the city sandwiched between mountains to the east and west, most of Sanaa's expansion in recent decades has been along a north-south axis.
1	Because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
9	sandwiched	sandwich	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	between	between	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	west	west	ADV	RB	_	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
18	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	33	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	Sanaa	Sanaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	expansion	expansion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	decades	decade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
27	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	cop	_	_
28	along	along	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
30	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	south	South	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	axis	axis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sandwich** | past | most of Sanaa's expansion in recent decades *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the city; between mountains; to the east | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present · perfect | most of Sanaa's expansion in recent decades |  |  |  |  | along a south axis; because this position | tree rules |
| 3 | **expand** |  | Sanaa |  |  |  |  | in recent decades | nom expansion «act transitive»: poss=agent in=obl |

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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, «Sanaa», 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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