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title: The Mamluk army, with the support of forces loyal to Zaydi Imam Al-M… — Yemen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mamluk army, with the support of forces loyal to Zaydi Imam Al-Mutawakkil Yahya Sharaf ad-Din, conquered the entire Tahirid realm but failed to capture Aden in 1517. Who acts: Mamluk army. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Yemen» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Yemen, sentence 139

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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 Mamluk army, with the support of forces loyal to Zaydi Imam Al-Mutawakkil Yahya Sharaf ad-Din, conquered the entire Tahirid realm but failed to capture Aden in 1517.

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**Who acts:** Mamluk army · **What happens:** conquer, fail, not capture, support · **To what, where:** entire Tahirid realm, Aden, 1517, forces

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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 (Mamluk army), 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:139
# text = The Mamluk army, with the support of forces loyal to Zaydi Imam Al-Mutawakkil Yahya Sharaf ad-Din, conquered the entire Tahirid realm but failed to capture Aden in 1517.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Mamluk	Mamluk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	loyal	loyal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Zaydi	Zaydi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Imam	Imam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Mutawakkil	Mutawakkil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
17	Yahya	Yahya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	Sharaf	Sharaf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
19	ad	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Din	Din	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
23	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	Tahirid	Tahirid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	capture	capture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	Aden	Aden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	1517	1517	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conquer** | past | the Mamluk army with the support of forces | the entire Tahirid realm |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent realm=Patient |
| 2 | **fail** | past | the Mamluk army with the support of forces *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **capture** | to-infinitive | the Mamluk army with the support of forces *not said here* | Aden |  | 1517 |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aden=Theme |
| 4 | **support** |  |  | forces |  |  |  |  | nom support «act 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, «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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