--- title: At the same time, however, they have been suppressing all informatio… — Sanaa · tree and pragmatics description: At the same time, however, they have been suppressing all information about the scale of the outbreak, refusing to release positive test results and intimidating medical staff, journalists, and families to prevent them from speaking out about cases. Who acts: cases, families. 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At the same time, however, they have been suppressing all information about the scale of the outbreak, refusing to release positive test results and intimidating medical staff, journalists, and families to prevent them from speaking out about cases. **Who acts:** cases, families · **What happens:** suppress, refuse, not release, prevent, speak out · **To what, where:** information, positive test results, cases 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 (cases, families), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:386 # text = At the same time, however, they have been suppressing all information about the scale of the outbreak, refusing to release positive test results and intimidating medical staff, journalists, and families to prevent them from speaking out about cases. 1 At at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 however however ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 aux _ _ 11 suppressing suppress VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 12 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 information information NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 about about ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 scale scale NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 outbreak outbreak NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 refusing refuse VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 release release VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 positive positive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 results result NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 intimidating intimidating ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 medical medical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 staff staff NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 journalists journalist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 prevent prevent VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 from from SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 40 speaking speak VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 advcl _ _ 41 out out ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ _ 42 about about ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 cases case NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **suppress** | present · perfect · progressive | cases *= case* | all information | | | time | about the scale of the outbreak; however *property* | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent information=Patient about scale=Location | | 2 | **refuse** | gerund | cases *= case* *not said here* | | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **not** **release** | to-infinitive | cases *= case* *not said here* | positive test results and intimidating medical staff and journalists | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer result=Source | | 4 | **prevent** | to-infinitive | families | cases *= case* | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer they=Theme | | 5 | **speak out** *speech: other* | gerund | families *not said here* | | | | | about cases | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about case=Topic | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 385](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sanaa/385/) - next →: [sentence 387](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sanaa/387/) - ↑ back to [Sanaa](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sanaa/)