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title: UAE and Saudi forces were responsible for some of the most shocking… — Yemen · tree and pragmatics
description: UAE and Saudi forces were responsible for some of the most shocking treatment of prisoners, including being hung upside down for hours and sexual torture such as the burning of genitals. Who acts: UAE. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Yemen» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Yemen, sentence 425

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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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UAE and Saudi forces were responsible for some of the most shocking treatment of prisoners, including being hung upside down for hours and sexual torture such as the burning of genitals.

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**Who acts:** UAE · **What happens:** be, hang down, treat · **To what, where:** upside, prisoners

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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 (UAE), 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:425
# text = UAE and Saudi forces were responsible for some of the most shocking treatment of prisoners, including being hung upside down for hours and sexual torture such as the burning of genitals.
1	UAE	UAE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	Saudi	Saudi	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	responsible	responsible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	_
12	shocking	shocking	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	including	including	ADP	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
20	upside	upside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	down	down	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	sexual	sexual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	torture	torture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	30	case	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	genitals	genitals	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | UAE and Saudi forces |  |  |  |  | for some of the shocking treatment of prisoners; responsible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hang down** | gerund · passive | UAE and Saudi forces *not said here* | upside |  |  | hour | down *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: upside=Patient |
| 3 | **treat** |  |  | prisoners |  |  |  |  | nom treatment «act transitive»: of=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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