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title: As of August 2015, the city of Sanaa employed 19 people as waste pic… — Sanaa · tree and pragmatics
description: As of August 2015, the city of Sanaa employed 19 people as waste pickers for use in recycling: 4 at al-Azraqayn and 15 (12 men and 3 boys) at Sanaa Transit Station. Who acts: city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sanaa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sanaa, sentence 478

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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 August 2015, the city of Sanaa employed 19 people as waste pickers for use in recycling: 4 at al-Azraqayn and 15 (12 men and 3 boys) at Sanaa Transit Station.

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**Who acts:** city · **What happens:** employ · **To what, where:** 19 people, Sanaa Transit Station

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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 (city), 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:478
# text = As of August 2015, the city of Sanaa employed 19 people as waste pickers for use in recycling: 4 at al-Azraqayn and 15 (12 men and 3 boys) at Sanaa Transit Station.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	3	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Sanaa	Sanaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	employed	employ	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	19	19	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	pickers	picker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	recycling	recycling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Azraqayn	Azraqayn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	conj	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	appos	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	Sanaa	Sanaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
37	Transit	Transit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	Station	Station	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **employ** | past | the city of Sanaa | 19 people |  | Sanaa Transit Station | august | as waste pickers for use in recycling; 4 at al *obl* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent people=Theme as picker=Attribute |

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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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