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title: The Sabaeans regained their hegemony in South Arabia, by establishin… — Yemen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sabaeans regained their hegemony in South Arabia, by establishing control over Ma'in, after the collapse of Qataban in 50 BC. Who acts: Sabaeans, Qataban. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Yemen» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Yemen, sentence 36

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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 Sabaeans regained their hegemony in South Arabia, by establishing control over Ma'in, after the collapse of Qataban in 50 BC.

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**Who acts:** Sabaeans, Qataban · **What happens:** regain, establish, collapse · **To what, where:** hegemony, South Arabia, control, Ma'in

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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 (Sabaeans, Qataban), 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:36
# text = The Sabaeans regained their hegemony in South Arabia, by establishing control over Ma'in, after the collapse of Qataban in 50 BC.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sabaeans	Sabaean	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	regained	regain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hegemony	hegemony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Arabia	Arabia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	establishing	establish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Ma'in	Ma'in	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	collapse	collapse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Qataban	Qataban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	_
23	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **regain** | past | the Sabaeans | Sabaeans's hegemony |  | South Arabia |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hegemony=Theme |
| 2 | **establish** | gerund | the Sabaeans *not said here* | control |  | Ma'in | after the collapse of Qataban in 50  BC |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=Patient |
| 3 | **collapse** |  | Qataban |  |  |  |  |  | nom collapse «state intransitive»: of=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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