Ethiopia, sentence 109

From Wikipedia, «Ethiopia», 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.

By the 16th century, an influx of migration by ethnic Oromo into northern parts of the region fragmented the empire's power.

Who acts: influx, ethnic Oromo · What happens: fragment, migrate · To what, where: power

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ethiopia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (influx, ethnic Oromo), 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	By	by	ADP	_	4 century	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 century	det
3	16th	16th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	4 century	amod
4	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fragmented	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 influx	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 influx	det
7	influx	influx	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fragmented	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 migration	case
9	migration	migration	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 influx	nmod
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 Oromo	case
11	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Oromo	amod
12	Oromo	Oromo	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 migration	nmod
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 parts	case
14	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 parts	amod
15	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 influx	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 region	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 region	det
18	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 parts	nmod
19	fragmented	fragment	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 empire	det
21	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 power	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 empire	case
23	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fragmented	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 fragmented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fragment	past	a influx of migration by ethnic Oromo into northern parts of the region	the empire's power			century		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
2	migrate		ethnic Oromo						nom migration «act intransitive»: by=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.

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Ethiopia, sentence 109