Ethiopia, sentence 137
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.
On 10 March 1889, Yohannes IV was killed by the Sudanese Khalifah Abdullah's army whilst leading his army in the Battle of Gallabat.
Who acts: army · What happens: kill, lead · To what, where: Yohannes, 10, army, Battle
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 (army), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 10 | case |
| 2 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 killed | obl |
| 3 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 1889 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 1889 | 1889 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 10 | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 10 | punct |
| 6 | Yohannes | Yohannes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | IV | IV | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Yohannes | flat |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 killed | aux:pass |
| 9 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 army | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Abdullah | det |
| 12 | Sudanese | Sudanese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Khalifah | compound |
| 13 | Khalifah | Khalifah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Abdullah | compound |
| 14 | Abdullah | Abdullah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 army | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Abdullah | case |
| 16 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 killed | obl |
| 17 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 18 leading | mark |
| 18 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 killed | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 army | nmod:poss |
| 20 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leading | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 Battle | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Battle | det |
| 23 | Battle | Battle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 leading | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Gallabat | case |
| 25 | Gallabat | Gallabat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Battle | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · passive | the Khalifah Abdullah's army | Yohannes | 10 1889 March | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | lead | gerund | the Khalifah Abdullah's army not said here | Yohannes's army | the Battle of Gallabat | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent army=Theme in battle=Destination |
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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