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title: He praised the city, writing La budda min Ṣanʻāʼ, or "Sanaa must be… — Sanaa · tree and pragmatics
description: He praised the city, writing La budda min Ṣanʻāʼ, or "Sanaa must be seen." Who acts: Imam. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sanaa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sanaa, sentence 32

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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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He praised the city, writing La budda min Ṣanʻāʼ, or "Sanaa must be seen."

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**Who acts:** Imam · **What happens:** praise, write, see · **To what, where:** city, La, Sanaa

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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 (Imam), 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:32
# text = He praised the city, writing La budda min Ṣanʻāʼ, or "Sanaa must be seen."
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	praised	praise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	writing	write	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	La	La	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	budda	budda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	min	min	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:desc	_	_
10	Ṣanʻāʼ	Ṣanʻāʼ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Sanaa	sanaa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **praise** | past | Imam | the city |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme |
| 2 | **write** | gerund | Imam *not said here* | La |  |  |  | Ṣanʻāʼ  budda min *xcomp* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent la=Theme |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | must · passive |  | Sanaa |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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