Ethiopia, sentence 320
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.
Renting out land for a maximum of twenty years is allowed, and this is expected to ensure that land goes to the most productive user.
Who acts: Renting, this, land · What happens: rent out, allow, expect, ensure, go · To what, where: land, this, productive user
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 (Renting, this, land), 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 | Renting | rent | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 allowed | csubj:pass |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Renting | compound:prt |
| 3 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Renting | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 maximum | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 maximum | det |
| 6 | maximum | maximum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Renting | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 years | case |
| 8 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 maximum | nmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 allowed | aux:pass |
| 11 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 expected | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 expected | cc |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 expected | aux:pass |
| 16 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 allowed | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 ensure | mark |
| 18 | ensure | ensure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 expected | xcomp |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 land | det |
| 20 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 goes | nsubj |
| 21 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 ensure | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 user | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 user | det |
| 24 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 25 productive | advmod |
| 25 | productive | productive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 user | amod |
| 26 | user | user | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 goes | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rent out | gerund | land | for a maximum of twenty years | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent land=Theme for maximum=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | allow | present · passive | Renting | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING» | |||||
| 3 | expect | present · passive | this | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | ensure not said to happen | to-infinitive | this not said here | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go | present | that land | the productive user | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to user=Initial_Location |
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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