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title: Tribesmen (women may not compete) tuck their robes around their wais… — Yemen · tree and pragmatics
description: Tribesmen (women may not compete) tuck their robes around their waists for freedom of movement while running and leaping. Who acts: women, Tribesmen. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Yemen» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Yemen, sentence 547

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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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Tribesmen (women may not compete) tuck their robes around their waists for freedom of movement while running and leaping.

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**Who acts:** women, Tribesmen · **What happens:** not compete, tuck, run, leap · **To what, where:** robes, waists

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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 (women, Tribesmen), 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:547
# text = Tribesmen (women may not compete) tuck their robes around their waists for freedom of movement while running and leaping.
1	Tribesmen	tribesman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	compete	compete	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	tuck	tuck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	around	around	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	waists	waist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	leaping	leap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **compete** | may | women |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tuck** | present | Tribesmen | women's robes |  | women's waists for freedom of movement |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent robe=Theme around waist=Trajectory |
| 3 | **run** | gerund | Tribesmen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **leap** | gerund | Tribesmen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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