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title: This was accompanied by the destruction of several of the old city's… — Sanaa · tree and pragmatics
description: This was accompanied by the destruction of several of the old city's gates, as well as sections of the wall around it. Who acts: destruction. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sanaa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sanaa, sentence 82

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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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This was accompanied by the destruction of several of the old city's gates, as well as sections of the wall around it.

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**Who acts:** destruction · **What happens:** accompany, destroy, section · **To what, where:** This, several gates, wall

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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 (destruction), 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:82
# text = This was accompanied by the destruction of several of the old city's gates, as well as sections of the wall around it.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
8	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	19	cc	_	_
17	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	fixed	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
19	sections	section	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	around	around	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accompany** | past · passive | the destruction of the old city's several gates as sections of the wall around city | This |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **destroy** |  |  | the old city's several gates as sections of the wall around city |  |  |  |  | nom destruction «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **section** |  |  | the wall around city |  |  |  |  | nom section «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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