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title: Instead, they chose Taiz as their capital, while Aden was their prin… — Sanaa · tree and pragmatics
description: Instead, they chose Taiz as their capital, while Aden was their principal income-producing city. Who acts: Ayyubids, Aden. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sanaa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sanaa, sentence 49

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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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Instead, they chose Taiz as their capital, while Aden was their principal income-producing city.

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**Who acts:** Ayyubids, Aden · **What happens:** choose, produce, be · **To what, where:** Taiz, principal producing city

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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, Aden), 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:49
# text = Instead, they chose Taiz as their capital, while Aden was their principal income-producing city.
1	Instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Taiz	Taiz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
11	Aden	Aden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
14	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
15	income	income	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	producing	produce	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past | Ayyubids *= ayyubid* | Taiz |  |  |  | as Ayyubids's capital; instead *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taiz=Theme |
| 2 | **produce** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | income *compound* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Aden | Ayyubids's principal producing city |  |  |  | Ayyubids *= ayyubid* *nmod:poss* | 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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