Eritrea, sentence 120
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.
After il Duce declared the birth of the Italian Empire in May 1936, Italian Eritrea (enlarged with northern Ethiopia's regions) and Italian Somaliland were merged with the just-conquered Ethiopia into the new Italian East Africa (Africa Orientale Italiana).
Who acts: il · What happens: declare, enlarge, merge, conquer · To what, where: birth, Italian Eritrea, May, new East Africa
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 (il), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 declared | mark |
| 2 | il | IL | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 declared | nsubj |
| 3 | Duce | Duce | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 il | flat |
| 4 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 birth | det |
| 6 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 declared | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Empire | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Empire | det |
| 9 | Italian | Italian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Empire | amod |
| 10 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 birth | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 May | case |
| 12 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 merged | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | 1936 | 1936 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 May | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Eritrea | punct |
| 15 | Italian | Italian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Eritrea | amod |
| 16 | Eritrea | Eritrea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 May | conj |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 enlarged | punct |
| 18 | enlarged | enlarge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 Eritrea | acl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 regions | case |
| 20 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Ethiopia | amod |
| 21 | Ethiopia | Ethiopia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 regions | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 Ethiopia | case |
| 23 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 enlarged | obl |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 enlarged | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Somaliland | cc |
| 26 | Italian | Italian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Somaliland | amod |
| 27 | Somaliland | Somaliland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 May | conj |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 merged | aux:pass |
| 29 | merged | merge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 declared | conj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 Ethiopia | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Ethiopia | det |
| 32 | just | just | ADV | _ | 34 conquered | advmod |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 just | punct |
| 34 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 Ethiopia | amod |
| 35 | Ethiopia | Ethiopia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 merged | obl |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 41 Africa | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Africa | det |
| 38 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 Africa | amod |
| 39 | Italian | Italian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 East | compound |
| 40 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Africa | compound |
| 41 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 merged | obl |
| 42 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 44 Orientale | punct |
| 43 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Orientale | compound |
| 44 | Orientale | Orientale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Africa | appos |
| 45 | Italiana | Italiana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Orientale | flat |
| 46 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 44 Orientale | punct |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | il | the birth of the Italian Empire | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | enlarge | participle | Italian Eritrea not said here | with northern Ethiopia's regions | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with region=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | merge | past · passive | May 1936 and Italian Eritrea and Italian Somaliland | the new East Africa | with the conquered Ethiopia | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with ethiopia=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | conquer | participle | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: 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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Eritrea», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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