Eritrea, sentence 314
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.
Eritrea aspires to be self-reliant and, since 2005, has rejected foreign aid because it sees aid as a hindrance to true economic development.
Who acts: Eritrea, aid · What happens: aspire, be, reject, see · To what, where: foreign aid, aid
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 (Eritrea, aid), 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 | Eritrea | eritrea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 aspires | nsubj |
| 2 | aspires | aspire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 reliant | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 reliant | cop |
| 5 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reliant | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 self | punct |
| 7 | reliant | reliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 aspires | ccomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 2005 | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 and | punct |
| 10 | since | since | ADP | _ | 11 2005 | case |
| 11 | 2005 | 2005 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 reliant | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rejected | punct |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 rejected | aux |
| 14 | rejected | reject | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 aspires | parataxis |
| 15 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 aid | amod |
| 16 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rejected | obj |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 sees | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sees | nsubj |
| 19 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 rejected | advcl |
| 20 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sees | obj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 hindrance | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 hindrance | det |
| 23 | hindrance | hindrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sees | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 development | mark |
| 25 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 development | amod |
| 26 | economic | economic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 development | amod |
| 27 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hindrance | acl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 aspires | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aspire | present | Eritrea | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | Eritrea not said here | 2005 conj; reliant property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reject | present · perfect | foreign aid | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aid=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | present | aid | aid | as a hindrance true economic development | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer aid=Stimulus as hindrance=Attribute |
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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