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title: In 2012, in addition to the festival, there was a national theatre c… — Sanaa · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2012, in addition to the festival, there was a national theatre competition, sponsored by Equal Access Yemen and Future Partners for Development, featuring theatre troupes from around the country. Who acts: addition. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sanaa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sanaa, sentence 238

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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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In 2012, in addition to the festival, there was a national theatre competition, sponsored by Equal Access Yemen and Future Partners for Development, featuring theatre troupes from around the country.

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**Who acts:** addition · **What happens:** be, sponsor, feature · **To what, where:** national theatre competition, 2012, theatre troupes, country

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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 (addition), 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:238
# text = In 2012, in addition to the festival, there was a national theatre competition, sponsored by Equal Access Yemen and Future Partners for Development, featuring theatre troupes from around the country.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2012	2012	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	addition	addition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	competition	competition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	sponsored	sponsor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	Equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	Access	Access	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Yemen	Yemen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl:agent	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	Future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Partners	partner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Development	Development	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	featuring	feature	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
29	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	troupes	troupe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	around	around	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | addition to the festival | a national theatre competition |  | 2012 |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sponsor** | participle | addition to the festival *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Equal Access Yemen and Future Partners *obl:agent*; Development *obl:agent* | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **feature** | gerund | addition to the festival *not said here* | theatre troupes |  | the country |  |  | 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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