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title: The most common are "new villas", which are low-rise houses with fen… — Sanaa · tree and pragmatics
description: The most common are "new villas", which are low-rise houses with fenced yards; they are especially common in the southern and western parts of the city. Who acts: new villas, villas. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sanaa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sanaa, sentence 149

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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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The most common are "new villas", which are low-rise houses with fenced yards; they are especially common in the southern and western parts of the city.

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**Who acts:** new villas, villas · **What happens:** be, fence · **To what, where:** rise houses, southern parts

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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 (new villas, villas), 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:149
# text = The most common are "new villas", which are low-rise houses with fenced yards; they are especially common in the southern and western parts of the city.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	villas	villa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	fenced	fence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	yards	yard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
29	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | new villas and rise houses |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | new villas and rise houses | rise houses |  |  |  | with fenced yards | tree rules |
| 3 | **fence** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | villas *= villa* |  |  | the southern parts of the city |  | common, especially *property* | 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, «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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