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title: The Ayyubid rule was stable in southern and central Yemen, where the… — Yemen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ayyubid rule was stable in southern and central Yemen, where they succeeded in eliminating the ministates of that region, while Ismaili and Zaidi tribesmen continued to hold out in several fortresses. Who acts: Ayyubid rule, sultans, Ismaili tribesmen. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Yemen» with its 
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# Yemen, sentence 105

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From Wikipedia, [«Yemen»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen), 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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The Ayyubid rule was stable in southern and central Yemen, where they succeeded in eliminating the ministates of that region, while Ismaili and Zaidi tribesmen continued to hold out in several fortresses.

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**Who acts:** Ayyubid rule, sultans, Ismaili tribesmen · **What happens:** be, succeed, eliminate, continue, hold out · **To what, where:** southern, ministates, several fortresses

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Yemen». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ayyubid rule, sultans, Ismaili tribesmen), 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:Yemen:105
# text = The Ayyubid rule was stable in southern and central Yemen, where they succeeded in eliminating the ministates of that region, while Ismaili and Zaidi tribesmen continued to hold out in several fortresses.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Ayyubid	ayyubid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	stable	stable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Yemen	Yemen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	eliminating	eliminate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ministates	ministate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	Ismaili	Ismaili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	Zaidi	Zaidi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	tribesmen	tribesman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	fortresses	fortress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | past | the Ayyubid rule |  |  | southern |  | central Yemen *conj*; stable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **succeed** | past | sultans *= sultan* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **eliminate** | gerund | sultans *= sultan* *not said here* | the ministates of that region |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ministate=Patient |
| 4 | **continue** | past | Ismaili tribesmen |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **hold out** | to-infinitive | Ismaili tribesmen *not said here* |  |  | several fortresses |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fortress=Location |

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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, «Yemen», 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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