Ethiopia, sentence 142

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.

He had signed the Treaty of Wuchale with Italy in May 1889, by which Italy would recognise Ethiopia's sovereignty so long as Italy could control an area north of Ethiopia (now part of modern Eritrea).

Who acts: Menelik, Italy · What happens: sign, recognise, control · To what, where: Treaty, sovereignty, area

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 (Menelik, Italy), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 signed	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 signed	aux
3	signed	sign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Treaty	det
5	Treaty	Treaty	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 signed	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Wuchale	case
7	Wuchale	Wuchale	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Treaty	nmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 Italy	case
9	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Treaty	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 May	case
11	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 signed	obl
12	1889	1889	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 May	nmod:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 recognise	punct
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 recognise	obl
16	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 recognise	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 recognise	aux
18	recognise	recognise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 signed	parataxis
19	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 sovereignty	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 Ethiopia	case
21	sovereignty	sovereignty	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 recognise	obj
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 long	advmod
23	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 recognise	advmod
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 control	mark
25	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 control	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 control	aux
27	control	control	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 long	advcl
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 area	det
29	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 control	obj
30	north	north	ADV	_	27 control	advmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Ethiopia	case
32	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 north	obl
33	(	(	PUNCT	_	35 part	punct
34	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 part	advmod
35	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 recognise	parataxis
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 Eritrea	case
37	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Eritrea	amod
38	Eritrea	Eritrea	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 part	nmod
39	)	)	PUNCT	_	35 part	punct
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 signed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	sign	past · perfect	Menelik		the Treaty of Wuchale	may	with Italy	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent treaty=Destination with italy=Theme
2	recognise	would	Italy	Ethiopia's sovereignty			which obl; part of modern Eritrea parataxis; long property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sovereignty=Stimulus
3	control	could	Italy	a area			north property	vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Theme

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, «Ethiopia», 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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Ethiopia, sentence 142