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title: Skilled performers often "embellish" a song's melody to highlight it… — Sanaa · tree and pragmatics
description: Skilled performers often "embellish" a song's melody to highlight its emotional tone. Who acts: melody. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sanaa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sanaa, sentence 225

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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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Skilled performers often "embellish" a song's melody to highlight its emotional tone.

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**Who acts:** melody · **What happens:** highlight, intonate · **To what, where:** emotional tone, Skilled performers

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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 (melody), 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:225
# text = Skilled performers often "embellish" a song's melody to highlight its emotional tone.
1	Skilled	skilled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	performers	performer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	embellish	embellish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	melody	melody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	highlight	highlight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	emotional	emotional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **highlight** | to-infinitive |  | melody's emotional tone |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tone=Patient |
| 3 | **intonate** |  | melody |  |  |  |  |  | nom tone «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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