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title: As of 2018, almost a third of the city's garbage trucks had been dam… — Sanaa · tree and pragmatics
description: As of 2018, almost a third of the city's garbage trucks had been damaged during the fighting and another 18% were not operational. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sanaa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sanaa, sentence 475

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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 of 2018, almost a third of the city's garbage trucks had been damaged during the fighting and another 18% were not operational.

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**What happens:** damage, not be · **To what, where:** third

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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: 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:475
# text = As of 2018, almost a third of the city's garbage trucks had been damaged during the fighting and another 18% were not operational.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	3	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	2018	2018	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	garbage	garbage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	trucks	truck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	damaged	damage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	during	during	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fighting	fighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
22	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	operational	operational	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **damage** | past · perfect · passive |  | a third of the city's garbage trucks |  |  | during the fighting | as 2018 | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | operational *property* | tree rules |

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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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