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title: The highest point in Yemen and Arabia is Jabal An-Nabi Shu'ayb, at a… — Yemen · tree and pragmatics
description: The highest point in Yemen and Arabia is Jabal An-Nabi Shu'ayb, at about 3666 m. Yemen's portion of the Rub al Khali desert in the east is much lower, generally below 1000 m, and receives almost no rain. Who acts: highest point, Jabal. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Yemen» with its dependency tree and p
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# Yemen, sentence 355

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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 highest point in Yemen and Arabia is Jabal An-Nabi Shu'ayb, at about 3666 m. Yemen's portion of the Rub al Khali desert in the east is much lower, generally below 1000 m, and receives almost no rain.

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**Who acts:** highest point, Jabal · **What happens:** be, receive · **To what, where:** Jabal, 1000 m, rain

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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 (highest point, Jabal), 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:355
# text = The highest point in Yemen and Arabia is Jabal An-Nabi Shu'ayb, at about 3666 m. Yemen's portion of the Rub al Khali desert in the east is much lower, generally below 1000 m, and receives almost no rain.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Yemen	Yemen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Arabia	Arabia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	Jabal	Jabal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
10	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Nabi	Nabi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	Shu'ayb	Shu'ayb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	3666	3666	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nsubj	_	_
18	m.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Yemen	Yemen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:unmarked	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	Rub	Rub	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	Khali	Khali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	much	much	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
36	below	below	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	1000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	m	m	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	receives	receive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
42	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
43	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	44	det	_	_
44	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the highest point in Yemen and Arabia | Jabal |  |  |  | a Nabi *nmod* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Jabal |  |  | 1000 m |  | 3666  m. Yemen's portion of the al desert in the east *nsubj*; low *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **receive** | present | Jabal *not said here* | no rain |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Theme |

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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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