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title: As much as 90% of Yemen's water use is in agriculture, with irrigate… — Sanaa · tree and pragmatics
description: As much as 90% of Yemen's water use is in agriculture, with irrigated farmland increasing from 37,000 hectares in 1970 to 407,000 in 2004. Who acts: much, irrigated farmland, Yemen. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sanaa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sanaa, sentence 436

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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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As much as 90% of Yemen's water use is in agriculture, with irrigated farmland increasing from 37,000 hectares in 1970 to 407,000 in 2004.

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**Who acts:** much, irrigated farmland, Yemen · **What happens:** be, irrigate, increase, use · **To what, where:** agriculture, 37,000 hectares

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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 (much, irrigated farmland, Yemen), 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:436
# text = As much as 90% of Yemen's water use is in agriculture, with irrigated farmland increasing from 37,000 hectares in 1970 to 407,000 in 2004.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nsubj	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	90	90	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	Yemen	Yemen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	agriculture	agriculture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	irrigated	irrigate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	farmland	farmland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	increasing	increase	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	37,000	37,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	hectares	hectare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	1970	1970	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	407,000	407,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	2004	2004	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | much |  |  | agriculture |  | irrigated farmland *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **irrigate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **increase** | gerund | irrigated farmland *not said here* |  |  | 37,000 hectares |  | in 1970 to 407,000 in 2004 | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute PP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: agent=Patient from hectare=Intial\_State in 1970=Attribute |
| 4 | **use** |  | Yemen |  |  |  |  |  | nom use «act 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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