--- title: Meanwhile, the old city, with its unpaved streets, poor drainage, la… — Sanaa · tree and pragmatics description: Meanwhile, the old city, with its unpaved streets, poor drainage, lack of water and sewer systems, and litter (from the use of manufactured products, which was becoming increasingly common), was becoming increasingly unattractive to residents. Who acts: old city, use. 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Meanwhile, the old city, with its unpaved streets, poor drainage, lack of water and sewer systems, and litter (from the use of manufactured products, which was becoming increasingly common), was becoming increasingly unattractive to residents. **Who acts:** old city, use · **What happens:** sewer, manufacture, become, lack, use · **To what, where:** systems, water, manufactured products 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 (old city, use), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:94 # text = Meanwhile, the old city, with its unpaved streets, poor drainage, lack of water and sewer systems, and litter (from the use of manufactured products, which was becoming increasingly common), was becoming increasingly unattractive to residents. 1 Meanwhile meanwhile ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 unpaved unpaved ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 streets street NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 drainage drainage NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 lack lack NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 sewer sewer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 20 systems system NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 litter litter NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 24 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 manufactured manufacture VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 amod _ _ 30 products product NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 becoming become VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 35 increasingly increasingly ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 becoming become VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 41 increasingly increasingly ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 unattractive unattractive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 xcomp _ _ 43 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 residents resident NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 40 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sewer** | present | the old city and litter *not said here* | systems | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **manufacture** | participle | | | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **become** | past · progressive | the use of manufactured products | | | | | common *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **become** | past · progressive | the old city and litter | | | | | meanwhile, unattractive *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **lack** | | | water | | | | | nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient | | 6 | **use** | | | manufactured products | | | | | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sanaa/93/) - next →: [sentence 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sanaa/95/) - ↑ back to [Sanaa](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sanaa/)