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title: The British managed to occupy Aden and evicted the Sultan of Lahej f… — Yemen · tree and pragmatics
description: The British managed to occupy Aden and evicted the Sultan of Lahej from Aden and forced him to accept their "protection". Who acts: British, Aden, sultans. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Yemen» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Yemen, sentence 173

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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 British managed to occupy Aden and evicted the Sultan of Lahej from Aden and forced him to accept their "protection".

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**Who acts:** British, Aden, sultans · **What happens:** manage, occupy, evict, force, accept, protect · **To what, where:** Aden, Sultan, protection

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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 (British, Aden, sultans), 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:173
# text = The British managed to occupy Aden and evicted the Sultan of Lahej from Aden and forced him to accept their "protection".
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	British	British	PROPN	NNP	_	3	nsubj	_	_
3	managed	manage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	occupy	occupy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	Aden	Aden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	evicted	evict	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Lahej	Lahej	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Aden	Aden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	forced	force	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **manage** | past | the British |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **occupy** | to-infinitive | the British *not said here* | Aden |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus aden=Experiencer |
| 3 | **evict** | past | the British *not said here* | the Sultan of Lahej |  | Aden |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent sultan=Theme from aden=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **force** | past | the British *not said here* | Aden |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **accept** | to-infinitive | Aden *not said here* | sultans's protection |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protection=Theme |
| 6 | **protect** *in a quote* |  | sultans *= sultan* |  |  |  |  |  | nom protection «act transitive»: poss=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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