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title: He was a religious cleric and judge who was invited to come to Saada… — Yemen · tree and pragmatics
description: He was a religious cleric and judge who was invited to come to Saada from Medina to arbitrate tribal disputes. Who acts: imam. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Yemen» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Yemen, sentence 79

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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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He was a religious cleric and judge who was invited to come to Saada from Medina to arbitrate tribal disputes.

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**Who acts:** imam · **What happens:** be, judge, invite, come, arbitrate · **To what, where:** religious cleric, Saada, Medina, tribal disputes

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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 (imam), 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:79
# text = He was a religious cleric and judge who was invited to come to Saada from Medina to arbitrate tribal disputes.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cleric	cleric	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	judge	judge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	invited	invite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Saada	Saada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Medina	Medina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	arbitrate	arbitrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
19	tribal	tribal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	disputes	dispute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	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** | past | imam | a religious cleric |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **judge** | infinitive | imam *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **invite** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj:pass* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **come** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  | Saada | Medina |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to saada=Initial\_Location from medina=Destination |
| 5 | **arbitrate** | to-infinitive |  | tribal disputes |  |  |  |  | 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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