Addis Ababa, sentence 253
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.
It was built in 1922 by the order of Italian government.
Who acts: order · What happens: build, order · To what, where: notable, 1922, Italian government
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 (order), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 built | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 built | aux:pass |
| 3 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1922 | case |
| 5 | 1922 | 1922 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 built | obl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 order | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 order | det |
| 8 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 built | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 government | case |
| 10 | Italian | Italian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 government | amod |
| 11 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 order | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | the order of Italian government | notable | 1922 | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | |||
| 2 | order | Italian government | nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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