Ethiopia, sentence 586
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.
A lunar-stellar calendar, this Oromo calendar relies on astronomical observations of the moon in conjunction with seven particular stars or constellations.
Who acts: lunar stellar calendar · What happens: rely, observe · To what, where: moon
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 (lunar stellar calendar), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 calendar | det |
| 2 | lunar | lunar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 calendar | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 lunar | punct |
| 4 | stellar | stellar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 calendar | amod |
| 5 | calendar | calendar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 relies | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 calendar | punct |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 calendar | det |
| 8 | Oromo | Oromo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 calendar | compound |
| 9 | calendar | calendar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 relies | nsubj |
| 10 | relies | rely | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 observations | case |
| 12 | astronomical | astronomical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 observations | amod |
| 13 | observations | observation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 relies | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 moon | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 moon | det |
| 16 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 observations | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 conjunction | case |
| 18 | conjunction | conjunction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 relies | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 stars | case |
| 20 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 stars | nummod |
| 21 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 stars | amod |
| 22 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 conjunction | nmod |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 constellations | cc |
| 24 | constellations | constellation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 stars | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 relies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rely | present | a lunar stellar calendar | in conjunction with seven particular stars or constellations; on astronomical observations of the moon; this Oromo calendar nsubj | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on observation=Theme | ||||
| 2 | observe | the moon | nom observation «act transitive»: of=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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