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title: Even before the revolution, Yemen's water situation had been describ… — Yemen · tree and pragmatics
description: Even before the revolution, Yemen's water situation had been described as increasingly dire by experts who worried that Yemen would be the first country to run out of water. Who acts: experts, Yemen. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Yemen» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Yemen, sentence 470

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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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Even before the revolution, Yemen's water situation had been described as increasingly dire by experts who worried that Yemen would be the first country to run out of water.

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**Who acts:** experts, Yemen · **What happens:** describe, worry, be, run · **To what, where:** water situation, first country, water

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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 (experts, 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:470
# text = Even before the revolution, Yemen's water situation had been described as increasingly dire by experts who worried that Yemen would be the first country to run out of water.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	before	before	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	revolution	revolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Yemen	Yemen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	situation	situation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	increasingly	increasingly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	dire	dire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	experts	expert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	worried	worry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
21	Yemen	Yemen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	26	amod	_	_
26	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | past · perfect · passive |  | Yemen's water situation |  |  | before the revolution | dire *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **worry** | past | experts |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | would | Yemen | the first country |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **run** | to-infinitive | experts *not said here* |  |  | water |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out water=Trajectory |

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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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