Djibouti, sentence 138
From Wikipedia, «Djibouti», 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.
The Emperor of Ethiopia Tewodros I was soon killed by the Adal Sultanate upon the return of Sa'ad ad-Din's heirs to the Horn of Africa.
Who acts: Adal Sultanate, Sa'ad ad · What happens: kill, return · To what, where: Emperor
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Djibouti». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Adal Sultanate, Sa'ad ad), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Emperor | det |
| 2 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Tewodros | case |
| 4 | Ethiopia | Ethiopia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Tewodros | compound |
| 5 | Tewodros | Tewodros | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Emperor | nmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 killed | aux:pass |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 killed | advmod |
| 9 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Sultanate | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Sultanate | det |
| 12 | Adal | Adal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Sultanate | compound |
| 13 | Sultanate | Sultanate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 killed | obl |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 return | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 return | det |
| 16 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 killed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 ad | case |
| 18 | Sa'ad | Sa'ad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 ad | compound |
| 19 | ad | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 return | nmod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 ad | punct |
| 21 | Din | Din | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 heirs | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 Din | case |
| 23 | heirs | heir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 ad | nmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Horn | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Horn | det |
| 26 | Horn | Horn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 return | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Africa | case |
| 28 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Horn | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · passive | the Adal Sultanate | the Emperor of Ethiopia Tewodros | upon the return of Sa'ad ad Din's heirs to the Horn of Africa; I nsubj:pass; soon property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | return | Sa'ad ad Din's heirs | to the Horn of Africa | nom return «communication intransitive»: of=agent to=obl |
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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