Eritrea, sentence 127
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.
Through the 1941 Battle of Keren, the British expelled the Italians and took over the administration of the country.
Who acts: British · What happens: expel, take over, administer · To what, where: Italians, 1941 Battle, administration, country
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 (British), 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 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 4 Battle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Battle | det |
| 3 | 1941 | 1941 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Battle | nummod |
| 4 | Battle | Battle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 expelled | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Keren | case |
| 6 | Keren | Keren | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Battle | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Battle | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 British | det |
| 9 | British | British | PROPN | _ | 10 expelled | nsubj |
| 10 | expelled | expel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Italians | det |
| 12 | Italians | Italian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 expelled | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 expelled | conj |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 took | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 administration | det |
| 17 | administration | administration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 country | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 country | det |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 administration | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 expelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expel | past | the British | the Italians | the 1941 Battle of Keren | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent italian=Theme | |||
| 2 | take over | past | the British not said here | the administration of the country | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent administration=Theme | ||||
| 3 | administer | the country | nom administration «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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