Ethiopia, sentence 39
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.
The historian Herodotus used the appellation to denote those parts of Africa south of the Sahara that were then known within the Ecumene (habitable world).
Who acts: historian · What happens: use, denote, know · To what, where: appellation, parts, Sahara
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 (historian), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 historian | det |
| 2 | historian | historian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 used | nsubj |
| 3 | Herodotus | Herodotus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 historian | appos |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 appellation | det |
| 6 | appellation | appellation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 used | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 denote | mark |
| 8 | denote | denote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 used | advcl |
| 9 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 parts | det |
| 10 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 denote | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Africa | case |
| 12 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 parts | nmod |
| 13 | south | south | ADV | _ | 16 Sahara | advmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Sahara | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Sahara | det |
| 16 | Sahara | Sahara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 denote | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 known | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 known | aux:pass |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 known | advmod |
| 20 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 Sahara | acl:relcl |
| 21 | within | within | ADP | _ | 23 Ecumene | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Ecumene | det |
| 23 | Ecumene | Ecumene | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 known | obl |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 world | punct |
| 25 | habitable | habitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 world | amod |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Ecumene | appos |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 world | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | the historian | the appellation | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appellation=Patient | ||||
| 2 | denote | to-infinitive | the historian not said here | that parts of Africa | of the Sahara | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot part=Topic | |||
| 3 | know | past · passive | the Sahara | then | within the Ecumene | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
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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