Eritrea, sentence 135

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.

During the immediate postwar years, the British proposed that Eritrea be divided along religious community lines and annexed partly to the British colony of Sudan and partly to Ethiopia.

Who acts: British · What happens: propose, divide, annex · To what, where: Eritrea

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	During	during	ADP	_	5 years	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 years	det
3	immediate	immediate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 years	amod
4	postwar	postwar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 years	amod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 proposed	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 years	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 British	det
8	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 proposed	nsubj
9	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 divided	mark
11	Eritrea	Eritrea	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 divided	nsubj:pass
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 divided	aux:pass
13	divided	divide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 proposed	ccomp
14	along	along	ADP	_	17 lines	case
15	religious	religious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lines	amod
16	community	community	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lines	compound
17	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 divided	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 annexed	cc
19	annexed	annex	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 proposed	conj
20	partly	partly	ADV	_	19 annexed	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 colony	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 colony	det
23	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 colony	amod
24	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 annexed	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 Sudan	case
26	Sudan	Sudan	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 colony	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 Ethiopia	cc
28	partly	partly	ADV	_	30 Ethiopia	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 Ethiopia	case
30	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Sudan	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 proposed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	propose	past	the British		year		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	divide	infinitive · passive		Eritrea		along religious community lines	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	annex	past	the British not said here			to the British colony of Sudan and Ethiopia; partly property	vn steal-10.5 «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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Eritrea, sentence 135