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title: Although these trades were seen as somewhat demeaning for members of… — Sanaa · tree and pragmatics
description: Although these trades were seen as somewhat demeaning for members of the upper classes to take part in, they were still fairly respectable and in some cases sayyids or qadis would engage in them as a main source of income. Who acts: trades, sayyids. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sanaa» with its depende
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# Sanaa, sentence 270

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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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Although these trades were seen as somewhat demeaning for members of the upper classes to take part in, they were still fairly respectable and in some cases sayyids or qadis would engage in them as a main source of income.

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**Who acts:** trades, sayyids · **What happens:** see, demean, take in, be, engage · **To what, where:** trades, part, cases

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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 (trades, sayyids), 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:270
# text = Although these trades were seen as somewhat demeaning for members of the upper classes to take part in, they were still fairly respectable and in some cases sayyids or qadis would engage in them as a main source of income.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	trades	trade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	demeaning	demean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	classes	class	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
17	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	respectable	respectable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
29	sayyids	sayyid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	qadis	qadi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
32	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	engage	engage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
36	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	income	income	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · passive |  | this trades |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **demean** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for members of the upper classes; somewhat *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take in** | to-infinitive |  | part |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | trades *= trade* |  |  |  | still | fairly, respectable *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **engage** | would | sayyids or qadis |  |  | some cases |  | in trades *= trade*; as a main source of income | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as source=Attribute |

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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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