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title: The weakening of the Rasulid provided an opportunity for the Banu Ta… — Yemen · tree and pragmatics
description: The weakening of the Rasulid provided an opportunity for the Banu Taher clan to take over and establish themselves as the new rulers of Yemen in 1454 AD. Who acts: weakening, Rasulid. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Yemen» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Yemen, sentence 133

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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 weakening of the Rasulid provided an opportunity for the Banu Taher clan to take over and establish themselves as the new rulers of Yemen in 1454 AD.

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**Who acts:** weakening, Rasulid · **What happens:** provide, take over, establish, weaken · **To what, where:** opportunity, clans, 1454 AD

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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 (weakening, Rasulid), 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:133
# text = The weakening of the Rasulid provided an opportunity for the Banu Taher clan to take over and establish themselves as the new rulers of Yemen in 1454 AD.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	weakening	weakening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Rasulid	Rasulid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	provided	provide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	Banu	Banu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Taher	Taher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	clan	clan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	establish	establish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	rulers	ruler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	advcl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Yemen	Yemen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	1454	1454	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	AD	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** | past | the weakening of the Rasulid | a opportunity |  |  |  | for the Taher clan | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition opportunity=Theme for clan=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **take over** | to-infinitive | the weakening of the Rasulid *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **establish** | infinitive | the weakening of the Rasulid *not said here* | clans *= clan* |  | 1454 AD |  | the new rulers of Yemen *advcl* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
| 4 | **weaken** |  | the Rasulid |  |  |  |  |  | nom weakening «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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