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title: The Ottomans appeased the tribes by forgiving their rebellious chief… — Yemen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ottomans appeased the tribes by forgiving their rebellious chiefs and appointing them to administrative posts. Who acts: Ottomans. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Yemen» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Yemen, sentence 188

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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 Ottomans appeased the tribes by forgiving their rebellious chiefs and appointing them to administrative posts.

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**Who acts:** Ottomans · **What happens:** appease, forgive, appoint · **To what, where:** tribes, rebellious chiefs, Ottomans

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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 (Ottomans), 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:188
# text = The Ottomans appeased the tribes by forgiving their rebellious chiefs and appointing them to administrative posts.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ottomans	Ottoman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	appeased	appease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	forgiving	forgive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	rebellious	rebellious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	appointing	appoint	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	posts	post	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appease** | past | the Ottomans | the tribes |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tribe=Experiencer |
| 2 | **forgive** | gerund | the Ottomans *not said here* | Ottomans's rebellious chiefs |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Theme |
| 3 | **appoint** | gerund | the Ottomans *not said here* | Ottomans *= ottoman* |  |  |  | to administrative posts | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme to post=Attribute |

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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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