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title: Sunnis are primarily Shafi'i but also include significant groups of… — Yemen · tree and pragmatics
description: Sunnis are primarily Shafi'i but also include significant groups of Malikis and Hanbalis. Who acts: Sunnis. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Yemen» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Yemen, sentence 503

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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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Sunnis are primarily Shafi'i but also include significant groups of Malikis and Hanbalis.

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**Who acts:** Sunnis · **What happens:** be, include · **To what, where:** Shafi'i, significant groups

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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 (Sunnis), 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:503
# text = Sunnis are primarily Shafi'i but also include significant groups of Malikis and Hanbalis.
1	Sunnis	Sunni	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	primarily	primarily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	Shafi'i	Shafi'i	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	include	include	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Malikis	Malikis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Hanbalis	Hanbalis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Shafi'i |  |  |  | primarily *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **include** | present | Sunnis | significant groups of Malikis and Hanbalis |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=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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