Eritrea, sentence 113
From Wikipedia, «Eritrea», 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.
Thousands of Eritreans were concurrently enlisted in the Italian army, serving during the Italo-Turkish War in Libya as well as the First and Second Italo-Abyssinian Wars.
What happens: enlist, serve · To what, where: Thousands, Italian army
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Eritrea». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 enlisted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 Eritreans | case |
| 3 | Eritreans | Eritrean | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 Thousands | nmod |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 enlisted | aux:pass |
| 5 | concurrently | concurrently | ADV | _ | 6 enlisted | advmod |
| 6 | enlisted | enlist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 army | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 army | det |
| 9 | Italian | Italian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 army | amod |
| 10 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 enlisted | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 serving | punct |
| 12 | serving | serve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 enlisted | conj |
| 13 | during | during | ADP | _ | 18 War | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 War | det |
| 15 | Italo | Italo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 War | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Italo | punct |
| 17 | Turkish | Turkish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 War | compound |
| 18 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 serving | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Libya | case |
| 20 | Libya | Libya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 War | nmod |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 25 First | cc |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 as | fixed |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 as | fixed |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 First | det |
| 25 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 serving | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Second | cc |
| 27 | Second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 First | conj |
| 28 | Italo | Italo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Wars | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 Italo | punct |
| 30 | Abyssinian | Abyssinian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Wars | compound |
| 31 | Wars | War | PROPN | Number=Plur | 27 Second | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 enlisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enlist | past · passive | Thousands of Eritreans | the Italian army | concurrently property | vn volunteer-95.4-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: subject=Pivot in army=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | serve | gerund | during the Italo Turkish War in Libya | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
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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