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title: This daily chewing tradition starts in the Qat market, with the leav… — Sanaa · tree and pragmatics
description: This daily chewing tradition starts in the Qat market, with the leaves used for a particular day being bought day of use. Who acts: chewing tradition. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sanaa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sanaa, sentence 253

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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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This daily chewing tradition starts in the Qat market, with the leaves used for a particular day being bought day of use.

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**Who acts:** chewing tradition · **What happens:** chew, start, use, buy · **To what, where:** Qat market, leaves

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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 (chewing tradition), 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:253
# text = This daily chewing tradition starts in the Qat market, with the leaves used for a particular day being bought day of use.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
2	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	chewing	chew	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	compound	_	_
4	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Qat	Qat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
14	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chew** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | daily *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **start** | present | this chewing tradition |  |  | the Qat market |  | with the leaves | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with leaf=Subeventuality |
| 3 | **use** | participle |  | the leaves *not said here* |  |  | day |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **buy** | gerund · passive |  | the leaves *not said here* |  |  | day |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S» |

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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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