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title: Emperor Justinian I wanted the Himyarites to attack Persia. — Yemen · tree and pragmatics
description: Emperor Justinian I wanted the Himyarites to attack Persia. Who acts: Emperor, Himyarites. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Yemen» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Yemen, sentence 52

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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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Emperor Justinian I wanted the Himyarites to attack Persia.

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**Who acts:** Emperor, Himyarites · **What happens:** want, attack · **To what, where:** Himyarites, Persia

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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 (Emperor, Himyarites), 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:52
# text = Emperor Justinian I wanted the Himyarites to attack Persia.
1	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Justinian	Justinian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Himyarites	Himyarite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	attack	attack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
9	Persia	Persia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | Emperor | the Himyarites |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **attack** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Himyarites *not said here* | Persia |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent persia=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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