Ethiopia, sentence 383
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.
Though it differs among ethnic groups, traditional medicine often implements herbs, spiritual healing, bone-setting and minor surgical procedures in treating disease.
Who acts: source, minor surgical procedures · What happens: differ, treat · To what, where: implements herbs, disease
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 (source, minor surgical procedures), 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 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 3 differs | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 differs | nsubj |
| 3 | differs | differ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 6 groups | case |
| 5 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 groups | amod |
| 6 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 differs | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 medicine | punct |
| 8 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 medicine | amod |
| 9 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 groups | appos |
| 10 | often | often | ADV | _ | 12 herbs | advmod |
| 11 | implements | implement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 herbs | compound |
| 12 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 differs | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 healing | punct |
| 14 | spiritual | spiritual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 healing | amod |
| 15 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 herbs | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 setting | punct |
| 17 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 setting | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 bone | punct |
| 19 | setting | setting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 herbs | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 procedures | cc |
| 21 | minor | minor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 procedures | amod |
| 22 | surgical | surgical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 procedures | amod |
| 23 | procedures | procedure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 setting | conj |
| 24 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 25 treating | mark |
| 25 | treating | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 procedures | acl |
| 26 | disease | disease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 treating | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 differs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | differ | present | source | implements herbs and spiritual healing and bone setting and minor surgical procedures | among ethnic groups | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | treat | gerund | minor surgical procedures not said here | disease | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent disease=Recipient |
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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