Eritrea, sentence 263
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.
The impetus involved a major border conflict, notably around Badme and Zalambessa, and was not resolved until 2018.
Who acts: impetus · What happens: involve, not resolve · To what, where: major border conflict
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 (impetus), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 impetus | det |
| 2 | impetus | impetus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 involved | nsubj |
| 3 | involved | involve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 conflict | det |
| 5 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 conflict | amod |
| 6 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 conflict | compound |
| 7 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 involved | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Badme | punct |
| 9 | notably | notably | ADV | _ | 11 Badme | advmod |
| 10 | around | around | ADP | _ | 11 Badme | case |
| 11 | Badme | Badme | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 conflict | appos |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Zalambessa | cc |
| 13 | Zalambessa | Zalambessa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Badme | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 resolved | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 resolved | cc |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 resolved | aux:pass |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 resolved | advmod |
| 18 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 involved | conj |
| 19 | until | until | ADP | _ | 20 2018 | case |
| 20 | 2018 | 2018 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 resolved | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 involved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | involve | past | the impetus | a major border conflict | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conflict=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not resolve | past · passive | the impetus not said here | until 2018 | tree rules |
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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