Addis Ababa, sentence 84
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.
Two parallel axis were drawn in European character connecting Arada/Giyorgis with the railway station to the south end five kilometres long and varied width spanning from 40 to 90 meters.
Who acts: European character, varied width · What happens: draw, connect, span · To what, where: Two parallel axis, European character, Arada/Giyorgis, 40 meters
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 (European character, varied width), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 axis | nummod |
| 2 | parallel | parallel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 axis | amod |
| 3 | axis | axis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drawn | aux:pass |
| 5 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 character | case |
| 7 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 character | amod |
| 8 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drawn | obl |
| 9 | connecting | connect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 character | acl |
| 10 | Arada/Giyorgis | Arada/Giyorgis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 connecting | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 station | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 station | det |
| 13 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 station | compound |
| 14 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 connecting | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 end | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 end | det |
| 17 | south | South | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 end | amod |
| 18 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 station | nmod |
| 19 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 kilometres | nummod |
| 20 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 long | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 end | amod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 width | cc |
| 23 | varied | varied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 width | amod |
| 24 | width | width | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 end | conj |
| 25 | spanning | span | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 width | acl |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 meters | case |
| 27 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 meters | nummod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 90 | case |
| 29 | 90 | 90 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 40 | nmod |
| 30 | meters | meter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 spanning | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drawn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past · passive | Two parallel axis | European character | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in character=Destination | ||||
| 2 | connect | gerund | European character not said here | Arada/Giyorgis | with the railway station to the south end and varied width | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent arada/giyorgis=Patient with station=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | span | gerund | varied width not said here | 40 meters | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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