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title: The Mamluks therefore sent an army under Hussein al-Kurdi to fight t… — Yemen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mamluks therefore sent an army under Hussein al-Kurdi to fight the intruders The Mamluk sultan went to Zabid in 1515 and entered into diplomatic talks with the Tahiri sultan 'Amir bin Abdulwahab for money that would be needed for the jihad against the Portuguese. Who acts: Mamluks, Mamluk sultan
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# Yemen, sentence 147

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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 therefore sent an army under Hussein al-Kurdi to fight the intruders The Mamluk sultan went to Zabid in 1515 and entered into diplomatic talks with the Tahiri sultan 'Amir bin Abdulwahab for money that would be needed for the jihad against the Portuguese.

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**Who acts:** Mamluks, Mamluk sultan · **What happens:** send, fight, go, enter, need · **To what, where:** army, Hussein al, intruders, Zabid, 1515, diplomatic talks

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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, Mamluk sultan), 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:147
# text = The Mamluks therefore sent an army under Hussein al-Kurdi to fight the intruders The Mamluk sultan went to Zabid in 1515 and entered into diplomatic talks with the Tahiri sultan 'Amir bin Abdulwahab for money that would be needed for the jihad against the Portuguese.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mamluks	mamluk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Hussein	Hussein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Kurdi	Kurdi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	intruders	intruder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Mamluk	Mamluk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Zabid	Zabid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	1515	1515	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	diplomatic	diplomatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	talks	talk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Tahiri	Tahiri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
33	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Amir	Amir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	_
35	bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	_
36	Abdulwahab	Abdulwahab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
39	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	acl:relcl	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	jihad	jihad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
46	against	against	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | the Mamluks | a army |  | Hussein al |  | therefore *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Theme |
| 2 | **fight** | to-infinitive | the Mamluks *not said here* | the intruders |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intruder=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **go** | past | the Mamluk sultan | the intruders *not said here* | Zabid | 1515 |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location intruder=Theme |
| 4 | **enter** | past | the Mamluk sultan *not said here* |  |  | diplomatic talks |  | with the Tahiri sultan; for money | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into talk=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **need** | would · passive |  | money |  |  |  | for the jihad against the Portuguese | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |

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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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