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title: Before the civil war, Yemen's electricity was primarily supplied by… — Sanaa · tree and pragmatics
description: Before the civil war, Yemen's electricity was primarily supplied by the Ma'rib gas-fired power plant, which came online in 2009 and supplied 27-40% of the country's electricity while active. Who acts: gas fired power plant, Yemen, country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sanaa» with its dependency tree a
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# Sanaa, sentence 327

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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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Before the civil war, Yemen's electricity was primarily supplied by the Ma'rib gas-fired power plant, which came online in 2009 and supplied 27-40% of the country's electricity while active.

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**Who acts:** gas fired power plant, Yemen, country · **What happens:** supply, fire, come, electrify · **To what, where:** electricity, 2009

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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 (gas fired power plant, Yemen, country), 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:327
# text = Before the civil war, Yemen's electricity was primarily supplied by the Ma'rib gas-fired power plant, which came online in 2009 and supplied 27-40% of the country's electricity while active.
1	Before	before	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Yemen	Yemen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	primarily	primarily	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	supplied	supply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
14	Ma'rib	Ma'rib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	fired	fire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
18	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	online	online	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	supplied	supply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
28	27-40	27-40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
35	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
36	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **supply** | past · passive | the gas fired power plant  Ma'rib | Yemen's electricity |  |  | before the civil war | primarily *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **fire** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past | the gas fired power plant  Ma'rib |  |  | 2009 |  | online *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2009=Location |
| 4 | **supply** | participle | the gas fired power plant  Ma'rib *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent %=Recipient |
| 5 | **electrify** |  | Yemen |  |  |  |  |  | nom electricity «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **electrify** |  | the country |  |  |  |  |  | nom electricity «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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