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title: The vote outraged the U.S., and Saudi Arabia expelled 800,000 Yemeni… — Yemen · tree and pragmatics
description: The vote outraged the U.S., and Saudi Arabia expelled 800,000 Yemenis in 1990 and 1991 to punish Yemen for its opposition to the intervention. Who acts: vote, Saudi Arabia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Yemen» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Yemen, sentence 261

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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 vote outraged the U.S., and Saudi Arabia expelled 800,000 Yemenis in 1990 and 1991 to punish Yemen for its opposition to the intervention.

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**Who acts:** vote, Saudi Arabia · **What happens:** outrage, expel, punish, oppose · **To what, where:** U.S., 800,000 Yemenis, 1990, Yemen

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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 (vote, Saudi Arabia), 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:261
# text = The vote outraged the U.S., and Saudi Arabia expelled 800,000 Yemenis in 1990 and 1991 to punish Yemen for its opposition to the intervention.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	outraged	outrage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	U.S.	U.S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	Saudi	Saudi	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Arabia	Arabia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	expelled	expel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	800,000	800,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	Yemenis	Yemenis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1990	1990	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	1991	1991	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	punish	punish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
19	Yemen	Yemen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	opposition	opposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	intervention	intervention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **outrage** | past | the vote | the U.S. |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus u.s.=Experiencer |
| 2 | **expel** | past | Saudi Arabia | 800,000 Yemenis |  | 1990 |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yemenis=Theme |
| 3 | **punish** | to-infinitive | Saudi Arabia *not said here* | Yemen |  |  |  | for vote's opposition to the intervention | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent yemen=Patient for opposition=Theme |
| 4 | **oppose** |  | vote |  |  |  |  | to the intervention | nom opposition «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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