Africa: countries and capitals, sentence 13

Ethiopia, with its capital Addis Ababa, home of the African Union, kept its independence through the colonial period, apart from an Italian occupation from 1936 to 1941.

Who acts: Ethiopia · What happens: keep · To what, where: independence, colonial period

This is a sentence of the lesson «Africa: countries and capitals» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ethiopia), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 kept	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 capital	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 capital	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 capital	nmod:poss
5	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ethiopia	appos
6	Addis	Addis	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 capital	appos
7	Ababa	Ababa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Addis	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 home	punct
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 capital	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 Union	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Union	det
12	African	African	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Union	compound
13	Union	Union	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 home	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ethiopia	punct
15	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 independence	nmod:poss
17	independence	independence	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kept	obj
18	through	through	ADP	_	21 period	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 period	det
20	colonial	colonial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 period	amod
21	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kept	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 occupation	punct
23	apart	apart	ADV	_	27 occupation	advmod
24	from	from	ADP	_	27 occupation	case
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 occupation	det
26	Italian	Italian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 occupation	amod
27	occupation	occupation	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kept	obl
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 1936	case
29	1936	1936	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 occupation	nmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 1941	case
31	1941	1941	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 1936	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 kept	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Ethiopia	capital's independence		the colonial period		from a Italian occupation from 1936 to 1941	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent independence=Theme through period=Location

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:geography:013-africa-countries-and-capitals.lesson:13.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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