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title: In 1990, the two governments reached a full agreement on the joint g… — Yemen · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1990, the two governments reached a full agreement on the joint governing of Yemen, and the countries were merged on 22 May 1990, with Saleh as president. Who acts: two governments, joint. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Yemen» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Yemen, sentence 255

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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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In 1990, the two governments reached a full agreement on the joint governing of Yemen, and the countries were merged on 22 May 1990, with Saleh as president.

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**Who acts:** two governments, joint · **What happens:** reach, govern, merge · **To what, where:** full agreement, 1990, countries, 22

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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 (two governments, joint), 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:255
# text = In 1990, the two governments reached a full agreement on the joint governing of Yemen, and the countries were merged on 22 May 1990, with Saleh as president.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1990	1990	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	governments	government	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	joint	joint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	governing	govern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Yemen	Yemen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	merged	merge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	22	22	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	_
25	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:unmarked	_	_
26	1990	1990	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Saleh	Saleh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | the two governments | a full agreement |  | 1990 |  | on the joint | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent agreement=Theme |
| 2 | **govern** | gerund | the joint *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Yemen | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **merge** | past · passive |  | the countries |  | 22  1990  May |  | with Saleh as president | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with saleh=Co-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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