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title: Sanaanis tend to view the city's tap water as contaminated, choosing… — Sanaa · tree and pragmatics
description: Sanaanis tend to view the city's tap water as contaminated, choosing instead to buy filtered water in containers for drinking and cooking, which costs significantly more. Who acts: Sanaanis, cooking. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sanaa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sanaa, sentence 453

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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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Sanaanis tend to view the city's tap water as contaminated, choosing instead to buy filtered water in containers for drinking and cooking, which costs significantly more.

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**Who acts:** Sanaanis, cooking · **What happens:** tend, view, contaminate, choose, buy, filter · **To what, where:** tap water, filtered water, containers, more

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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 (Sanaanis, cooking), 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:453
# text = Sanaanis tend to view the city's tap water as contaminated, choosing instead to buy filtered water in containers for drinking and cooking, which costs significantly more.
1	Sanaanis	Sanaanis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tend	tend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	view	view	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	tap	tap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	contaminated	contaminate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	choosing	choose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	filtered	filter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	containers	container	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	drinking	drinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	costs	cost	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	significantly	significantly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tend** | present | Sanaanis |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **view** | to-infinitive | Sanaanis *not said here* | the city's tap water |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus |
| 3 | **contaminate** | participle | Sanaanis *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **choose** | gerund | Sanaanis *not said here* |  |  |  |  | instead *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **buy** | to-infinitive | Sanaanis *not said here* | filtered water |  | containers for drinking and cooking |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 6 | **filter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **cost** | present | cooking | more |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value |

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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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