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title: The Ayyubids gained control of Sanaa in 1175 and united the various… — Sanaa · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ayyubids gained control of Sanaa in 1175 and united the various Yemeni tribal states, except for the northern mountains controlled by the Zaydi imams, into one entity. Who acts: Ayyubids. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sanaa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sanaa, sentence 44

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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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The Ayyubids gained control of Sanaa in 1175 and united the various Yemeni tribal states, except for the northern mountains controlled by the Zaydi imams, into one entity.

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**Who acts:** Ayyubids · **What happens:** gain, unite, control · **To what, where:** control, various Yemeni tribal states, northern mountains

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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 (Ayyubids), 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:44
# text = The Ayyubids gained control of Sanaa in 1175 and united the various Yemeni tribal states, except for the northern mountains controlled by the Zaydi imams, into one entity.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ayyubids	ayyubid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Sanaa	Sanaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1175	1175	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	united	unite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	Yemeni	Yemeni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	tribal	tribal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	except	except	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
22	controlled	control	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Zaydi	Zaydi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	imams	imam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	entity	entity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gain** | past | the Ayyubids | control of Sanaa |  |  |  | in 1175 | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient control=Extent in 1175=Attribute |
| 2 | **unite** | past | the Ayyubids *not said here* | the various Yemeni tribal states and the northern mountains |  |  |  | into one entity | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent state=Patient into entity=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **control** | participle |  | the northern mountains *not said here* |  |  |  | by the Zaydi imams | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=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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