Eritrea, sentence 12
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.
In May 1865, much of the coastal lowlands came under the rule of the Khedivate of Egypt, until it was transferred to Italy in February 1885.
Who acts: much, Khedivate · What happens: come, transfer, rule · To what, where: rule, attempt, Italy
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: who acts (much, Khedivate), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 May | case |
| 2 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 3 | 1865 | 1865 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 May | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 much | punct |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 came | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 lowlands | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lowlands | det |
| 8 | coastal | coastal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lowlands | amod |
| 9 | lowlands | lowland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 much | obl |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 rule | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rule | det |
| 13 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Khedivate | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Khedivate | det |
| 16 | Khedivate | Khedivate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 rule | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Egypt | case |
| 18 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Khedivate | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 transferred | punct |
| 20 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 23 transferred | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 transferred | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 transferred | aux:pass |
| 23 | transferred | transfer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 came | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Italy | case |
| 25 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 transferred | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 February | case |
| 27 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 transferred | obl |
| 28 | 1885 | 1885 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 February | nmod:unmarked |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | much of the coastal lowlands | the rule of the Khedivate of Egypt | may | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under rule=Location | |||
| 2 | transfer | past · passive | attempt | Italy | february | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to italy=Recipient | |||
| 3 | rule | the Khedivate of Egypt | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=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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