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title: A Himyarite clan called the Yufirids established their rule over the… — Yemen · tree and pragmatics
description: A Himyarite clan called the Yufirids established their rule over the highlands from Saada to Taiz, while Hadhramaut was an Ibadi stronghold and rejected all allegiance to the Abbasids in Baghdad. Who acts: Himyarite clan, Hadhramaut, clans. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Yemen» with its dependency tree 
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# Yemen, sentence 77

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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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A Himyarite clan called the Yufirids established their rule over the highlands from Saada to Taiz, while Hadhramaut was an Ibadi stronghold and rejected all allegiance to the Abbasids in Baghdad.

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**Who acts:** Himyarite clan, Hadhramaut, clans · **What happens:** call, establish, be, reject, rule · **To what, where:** Yufirids, rule, highlands, Ibadi stronghold, allegiance · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Himyarite clan, Hadhramaut, clans), 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:77
# text = A Himyarite clan called the Yufirids established their rule over the highlands from Saada to Taiz, while Hadhramaut was an Ibadi stronghold and rejected all allegiance to the Abbasids in Baghdad.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Himyarite	himyarite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	clan	clan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Yufirids	yufirid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	established	establish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	highlands	highland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Saada	Saada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Taiz	Taiz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	Hadhramaut	Hadhramaut	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Ibadi	Ibadi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	stronghold	stronghold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	rejected	reject	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	allegiance	allegiance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Abbasids	abbasid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Baghdad	Baghdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle | a Himyarite clan *not said here* | the Yufirids |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent yufirid=Recipient |
| 2 | **establish** | past | a Himyarite clan | clans's rule |  | the highlands from Saada to Taiz |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Hadhramaut | a Ibadi stronghold |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **reject** | past | a Himyarite clan *not said here* | all allegiance |  |  |  | to the Abbasids in Baghdad | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent allegiance=Theme |
| 5 | **rule** |  | clans *= clan* |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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