Ethiopia, sentence 582
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.
Like the Julian calendar, the sixth epagomenal day—which in essence is a leap day—is added every four years without exception on 29 August of the Julian calendar, six months before the Julian leap day.
Who acts: sixth epagomenal day · What happens: be, add · To what, where: leap day, essence, sixth epagomenal day
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 (sixth epagomenal day), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 4 calendar | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 calendar | det |
| 3 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 calendar | compound |
| 4 | calendar | calendar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 added | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 calendar | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 7 | sixth | sixth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 day | amod |
| 8 | epagomenal | epagomenal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 day | amod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 added | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 day | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 day | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 essence | case |
| 13 | essence | essence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 day | obl |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 day | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 day | det |
| 16 | leap | leap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 day | compound |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 day | appos |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 day | punct |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 added | aux:pass |
| 20 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 years | det |
| 22 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 years | nummod |
| 23 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 added | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | without | without | ADP | _ | 25 exception | case |
| 25 | exception | exception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 added | obl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 August | case |
| 27 | 29 | 29 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 August | nummod |
| 28 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 exception | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 calendar | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 calendar | det |
| 31 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 calendar | compound |
| 32 | calendar | calendar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 August | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 months | punct |
| 34 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 months | nummod |
| 35 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 exception | conj |
| 36 | before | before | ADP | _ | 40 day | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 day | det |
| 38 | Julian | julian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 day | amod |
| 39 | leap | leap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 day | compound |
| 40 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 added | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the sixth epagomenal day | a leap day | essence | tree rules | |||
| 2 | add speech: assert | present · passive | the sixth epagomenal day | day; year | like the Julian calendar; without exception on 29 August of the Julian calendar and six months | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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