Eritrea, sentence 153
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.
It engaged in clandestine political activities intended to cultivate resistance to the centralizing policies of the imperial Ethiopian state.
Who acts: organization · What happens: engage, intend, cultivate, centralize · To what, where: political activities, clandestine, resistance
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 (organization), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 engaged | nsubj |
| 2 | engaged | engage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 clandestine | case |
| 4 | clandestine | clandestine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 engaged | obl |
| 5 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 activities | amod |
| 6 | activities | activity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 engaged | obj |
| 7 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 activities | acl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 cultivate | mark |
| 9 | cultivate | cultivate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 intended | xcomp |
| 10 | resistance | resistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cultivate | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 policies | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 policies | det |
| 13 | centralizing | centralize | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 policies | amod |
| 14 | policies | policy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cultivate | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 state | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 state | det |
| 17 | imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 state | amod |
| 18 | Ethiopian | ethiopian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 state | amod |
| 19 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 policies | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 engaged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engage | past | organization | political activities | in clandestine goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent activity=Theme in clandestine=Goal | |||
| 2 | intend | participle | political activities not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | cultivate not said to happen | to-infinitive | resistance | to the centralizing policies of the imperial Ethiopian state | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resistance=Product | ||||
| 4 | centralize | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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