Ethiopia, sentence 127
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.
Between 1769 and 1855, Ethiopia witnessed the Zemene Mesafint or "Age of Princes," a period of isolation.
Who acts: Ethiopia · What happens: witness · To what, where: Zemene Mesafint
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 (Ethiopia), 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 | Between | between | ADP | _ | 2 1769 | case |
| 2 | 1769 | 1769 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 witnessed | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 1855 | cc |
| 4 | 1855 | 1855 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 1769 | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1769 | punct |
| 6 | Ethiopia | Ethiopia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 witnessed | nsubj |
| 7 | witnessed | witness | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Mesafint | det |
| 9 | Zemene | Zemene | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Mesafint | compound |
| 10 | Mesafint | Mesafint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 witnessed | obj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 Age | cc |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Age | punct |
| 13 | Age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Mesafint | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Princes | case |
| 15 | Princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Age | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 period | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 period | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 period | det |
| 19 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Mesafint | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 isolation | case |
| 21 | isolation | isolation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 period | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 witnessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | witness | past | Ethiopia | the Zemene Mesafint or Age of Princes | between 1769 | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mesafint=Beneficiary |
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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