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title: The Sunnis are the majority in the south and southeast, which are le… — Yemen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sunnis are the majority in the south and southeast, which are less populous. Who acts: Sunnis, majority. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Yemen» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Yemen, sentence 504

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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 Sunnis are the majority in the south and southeast, which are less populous.

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**Who acts:** Sunnis, majority · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** majority, south, less populous

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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, majority), 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:504
# text = The Sunnis are the majority in the south and southeast, which are less populous.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sunnis	Sunni	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	southeast	southeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	populous	populace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Sunnis | the majority and less populous |  | the south and southeast |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the majority and less populous | less populous |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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