Ethiopia, sentence 558
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 best known philosophical revival was in the early modern period, such as Zera Yacob (1599–1692) and his student Walda Heywat, who wrote Hatata (Inquiry) in 1667 as an argument for the existence of God.
Who acts: best known philosophical revival, student, God · What happens: know, be, write, exist · To what, where: early modern period, Hatata, 1667
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 (best known philosophical revival, student, God), 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 | 5 revival | det |
| 2 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 revival | amod |
| 3 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 revival | amod |
| 4 | philosophical | philosophical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 revival | amod |
| 5 | revival | revival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 period | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 period | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 period | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 period | det |
| 9 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 period | amod |
| 10 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 period | amod |
| 11 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Zera | punct |
| 13 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 15 Zera | case |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 such | fixed |
| 15 | Zera | Zera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 period | appos |
| 16 | Yacob | Yacob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Zera | flat |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 1599 | punct |
| 18 | 1599 | 1599 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 Zera | list |
| 19 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 20 1692 | case |
| 20 | 1692 | 1692 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 1599 | nmod |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 1599 | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 student | cc |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 student | nmod:poss |
| 24 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 1599 | conj |
| 25 | Walda | Walda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 student | appos |
| 26 | Heywat | Heywat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Walda | flat |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 wrote | punct |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 wrote | nsubj |
| 29 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 student | acl:relcl |
| 30 | Hatata | Hatata | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 wrote | obj |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 Inquiry | punct |
| 32 | Inquiry | Inquiry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Hatata | appos |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 Inquiry | punct |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 1667 | case |
| 35 | 1667 | 1667 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 wrote | obl |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 38 argument | case |
| 37 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 argument | det |
| 38 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wrote | obl |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 existence | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 existence | det |
| 41 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 argument | nmod |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 God | case |
| 43 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 existence | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 period | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | the best known philosophical revival | the early modern period | Zera appos | tree rules | |||
| 3 | write | past | Zera's student | Hatata | 1667 | as a argument for the existence of God | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hatata=Theme in 1667=Destination | ||
| 4 | exist | God | nom existence «state intransitive»: of=agent |
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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