Eritrea, sentence 479
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.
Though city planners, architects, and engineers were largely European and members of the indigenous population were largely used as construction workers, Asmarinos still identify with their city's legacy.
Who acts: engineers · What happens: be, use, identify · To what, where: members, city planners
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 (engineers), 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 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 3 planners | mark |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 planners | compound |
| 3 | planners | planner | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 architects | punct |
| 5 | architects | architect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 planners | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 European | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 European | cc |
| 8 | engineers | engineer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 European | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 European | cop |
| 10 | largely | largely | ADV | _ | 11 European | advmod |
| 11 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 planners | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 used | cc |
| 13 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 used | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 population | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 population | det |
| 16 | indigenous | indigenous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 population | amod |
| 17 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 members | nmod |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 used | aux:pass |
| 19 | largely | largely | ADV | _ | 20 used | advmod |
| 20 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 European | conj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 workers | case |
| 22 | construction | construction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 workers | compound |
| 23 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 used | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Asmarinos | punct |
| 25 | Asmarinos | Asmarinos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 workers | appos |
| 26 | still | still | ADV | _ | 27 identify | advmod |
| 27 | identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 used | advcl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 legacy | case |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 city | nmod:poss |
| 30 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 legacy | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 city | case |
| 32 | legacy | legacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 identify | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 planners | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | engineers | european, largely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | past · passive | members of the indigenous population | as construction workers; largely property | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as worker=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | identify | present | still | with member's city's legacy | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer with legacy=Stimulus |
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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