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title: The Houthis directly threatened the Jewish community in 2007, prompt… — Sanaa · tree and pragmatics
description: The Houthis directly threatened the Jewish community in 2007, prompting the government of President Saleh to offer them refuge in Sanaa. as of 2010, around 700 Jews were living in the capital under government protection. Who acts: Houthis, 700 Jews. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sanaa» with its depende
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# Sanaa, sentence 289

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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 Houthis directly threatened the Jewish community in 2007, prompting the government of President Saleh to offer them refuge in Sanaa. as of 2010, around 700 Jews were living in the capital under government protection.

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**Who acts:** Houthis, 700 Jews · **What happens:** threaten, prompt, offer, refuge, live · **To what, where:** Jewish community, 2007, government, Sanaa, capital

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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 (Houthis, 700 Jews), 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:289
# text = The Houthis directly threatened the Jewish community in 2007, prompting the government of President Saleh to offer them refuge in Sanaa. as of 2010, around 700 Jews were living in the capital under government protection.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Houthis	Houthis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	threatened	threaten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	2007	2007	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	prompting	prompt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:desc	_	_
16	Saleh	Saleh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	refuge	refuge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Sanaa	Sanaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	26	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	2010	2010	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	around	around	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	700	700	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	under	under	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **threaten** | past | the Houthis | the Jewish community |  | 2007 |  | directly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus community=Experiencer |
| 2 | **prompt** | gerund | the Houthis *not said here* | the government of Saleh  President |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition government=Patient |
| 3 | **offer** | to-infinitive | the Houthis *not said here* | Sanaa |  |  |  | as 2010 | tree rules |
| 4 | **refuge** *not said to happen* | infinitive | the Houthis *not said here* |  |  | Sanaa |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **live** | past · progressive | 700 Jews |  |  | the capital |  | under government protection | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in capital=Location |

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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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