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title: In 2001, violence surrounded a referendum, which apparently supporte… — Yemen · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2001, violence surrounded a referendum, which apparently supported extending Saleh's rule and powers. Who acts: Saleh. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Yemen» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Yemen, sentence 276

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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 2001, violence surrounded a referendum, which apparently supported extending Saleh's rule and powers.

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**Who acts:** Saleh · **What happens:** surround, support, extend, rule · **To what, where:** surrounded referendum, rule

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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 (Saleh), 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:276
# text = In 2001, violence surrounded a referendum, which apparently supported extending Saleh's rule and powers.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2001	2001	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	violence	violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	referendum	referendum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
10	apparently	apparently	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	supported	support	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	extending	extend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
13	Saleh	Saleh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surround** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **support** | past |  | a surrounded referendum  2001 violence |  |  |  | apparently *property* | vn help-72.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent which=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **extend** | gerund |  | Saleh's rule and powers |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent rule=Theme |
| 5 | **rule** |  | Saleh |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: 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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