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title: Muhammad sent his cousin Ali to Sanaa and its surroundings around 630. — Yemen · tree and pragmatics
description: Muhammad sent his cousin Ali to Sanaa and its surroundings around 630. Who acts: Muhammad. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Yemen» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Yemen, sentence 59

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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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Muhammad sent his cousin Ali to Sanaa and its surroundings around 630.

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**Who acts:** Muhammad · **What happens:** send · **To what, where:** cousin, Sanaa

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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 (Muhammad), 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:59
# text = Muhammad sent his cousin Ali to Sanaa and its surroundings around 630.
1	Muhammad	Muhammad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Sanaa	Sanaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	surroundings	surroundings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	7	conj	_	_
11	around	around	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	630	630	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | Muhammad | Muhammad's cousin | Sanaa and cousin's surroundings |  |  | 630 *obl* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cousin=Theme to sanaa=Destination |

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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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