Addis Ababa, sentence 102
From Wikipedia, «Addis Ababa», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
1,500 peasants in Addis Ababa marched to plead for food to be returned by police, and intellectual from Addis Ababa University forced the government to take a measure against the spreading famine, a report which Haile Selassie government denounced as "fabrication".
Who acts: 1,500 peasants, police, government, Haile government · What happens: march, plead, return, force, take, spread · To what, where: government, measure, spreading famine, report
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Addis Ababa». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (1,500 peasants, police, government, Haile government), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,500 | 1,500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 peasants | nummod |
| 2 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 marched | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Ababa | case |
| 4 | Addis | Addis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ababa | compound |
| 5 | Ababa | Ababa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 peasants | nmod |
| 6 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 plead | mark |
| 8 | plead | plead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 marched | xcomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 food | case |
| 10 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 plead | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 returned | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 returned | aux:pass |
| 13 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 plead | advcl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 police | case |
| 15 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 returned | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 intellectual | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 intellectual | cc |
| 18 | intellectual | intellectual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 marched | conj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 Ababa | case |
| 20 | Addis | Addis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Ababa | compound |
| 21 | Ababa | Ababa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 intellectual | obl |
| 22 | University | University | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Ababa | flat |
| 23 | forced | force | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 marched | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 government | det |
| 25 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 forced | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 take | mark |
| 27 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 forced | xcomp |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 measure | det |
| 29 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 take | obj |
| 30 | against | against | ADP | _ | 33 famine | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 famine | det |
| 32 | spreading | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 famine | amod |
| 33 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 take | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 report | punct |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 report | det |
| 36 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 marched | parataxis |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 denounced | obj |
| 38 | Haile | Haile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 government | compound |
| 39 | Selassie | Selassie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Haile | flat |
| 40 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 denounced | nsubj |
| 41 | denounced | denounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 report | acl:relcl |
| 42 | as | as | ADP | _ | 44 fabrication | case |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 fabrication | punct |
| 44 | fabrication | fabrication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 denounced | obl |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 fabrication | punct |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 marched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | march | past | 1,500 peasants in Addis Ababa | a report parataxis | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | plead speech: request | to-infinitive | 1,500 peasants in Addis Ababa not said here | for food | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | return | to-infinitive · passive | police | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | force | past | 1,500 peasants in Addis Ababa not said here | the government | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent government=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | take | to-infinitive | the government not said here | a measure | the spreading famine | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent measure=Theme against famine=Destination | |||
| 6 | spread | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | denounce | past | Haile government | a report | as fabrication | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent which=Theme as fabrication=Attribute |
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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