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title: Yemen officially abolished slavery in Yemen in 1962, but it is still… — Yemen · tree and pragmatics
description: Yemen officially abolished slavery in Yemen in 1962, but it is still being practiced. Who acts: Yemen. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Yemen» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Yemen, sentence 430

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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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Yemen officially abolished slavery in Yemen in 1962, but it is still being practiced.

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**Who acts:** Yemen · **What happens:** abolish, practice · **To what, where:** slavery, 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 (Yemen), 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:430
# text = Yemen officially abolished slavery in Yemen in 1962, but it is still being practiced.
1	Yemen	Yemen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	abolished	abolish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	slavery	slavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Yemen	Yemen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1962	1962	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	practiced	practice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abolish** | past | Yemen | slavery |  | Yemen |  | in 1962; officially *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slavery=Theme |
| 2 | **practice** | present · progressive · passive |  | slavery |  |  | still |  | vn rehearse-26.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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