--- title: A new Sanaa Airport started construction in 2008 but stopped in 2011… — Sanaa · tree and pragmatics description: A new Sanaa Airport started construction in 2008 but stopped in 2011 and has not resumed since. Who acts: new Sanaa Airport. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sanaa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sanaa/414/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Sanaa](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sanaa/) / 414 # Sanaa, sentence 414 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. A new Sanaa Airport started construction in 2008 but stopped in 2011 and has not resumed since. **Who acts:** new Sanaa Airport · **What happens:** start, stop, not resume · **To what, where:** construction, 2008, 2011 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 (new Sanaa Airport), 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:414 # text = A new Sanaa Airport started construction in 2008 but stopped in 2011 and has not resumed since. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 Sanaa Sanaa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Airport Airport PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 construction construction NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 2008 2008 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 2011 2011 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 resumed resume VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 17 since since ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | past | a new Sanaa Airport | construction | | 2008 | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent construction=Eventuality | | 2 | **stop** | past | a new Sanaa Airport *not said here* | | | 2011 | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2011=Location | | 3 | **not** **resume** | present · perfect | a new Sanaa Airport *not said here* | | | | | since *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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 413](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sanaa/413/) - next →: [sentence 415](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sanaa/415/) - ↑ back to [Sanaa](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sanaa/)