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title: The Mamluks tried to attach Yemen to Egypt and the Portuguese led by… — Yemen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mamluks tried to attach Yemen to Egypt and the Portuguese led by Afonso de Albuquerque, occupied the island of Socotra and made an unsuccessful attack on Aden in 1513. Who acts: Mamluks. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Yemen» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Yemen, sentence 144

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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 Mamluks tried to attach Yemen to Egypt and the Portuguese led by Afonso de Albuquerque, occupied the island of Socotra and made an unsuccessful attack on Aden in 1513.

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**Who acts:** Mamluks · **What happens:** try, attach, lead, occupy, make · **To what, where:** Yemen, Egypt, island, unsuccessful attack, Aden

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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 (Mamluks), 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:144
# text = The Mamluks tried to attach Yemen to Egypt and the Portuguese led by Afonso de Albuquerque, occupied the island of Socotra and made an unsuccessful attack on Aden in 1513.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mamluks	mamluk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	attach	attach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	Yemen	Yemen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Afonso	Afonso	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl:agent	_	_
15	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	Albuquerque	Albuquerque	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Socotra	Socotra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	unsuccessful	unsuccessful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Aden	Aden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	1513	1513	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | the Mamluks |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **attach** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Mamluks *not said here* | Yemen | Egypt and the Portuguese |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent yemen=Patient to egypt=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **lead** | participle | the Mamluks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Afonso *obl:agent* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 4 | **occupy** | past |  | the island of Socotra |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus island=Experiencer |
| 5 | **make** | past |  | a unsuccessful attack |  | Aden |  | in 1513 | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset attack=Product |

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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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