Ethiopia, sentence 6
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.
In 980 BC, the Kingdom of D'mt extended its realm over Eritrea and the northern region of Ethiopia, while the Kingdom of Aksum maintained a unified civilisation in the region for 900 years.
Who acts: Kingdom · What happens: extend, maintain · To what, where: realm, 980, unified civilisation, region
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 (Kingdom), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 980 | case |
| 2 | 980 | 980 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 extended | obl |
| 3 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 980 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 980 | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Kingdom | det |
| 6 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 extended | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 D'mt | case |
| 8 | D'mt | D'mt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Kingdom | nmod |
| 9 | extended | extend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 realm | nmod:poss |
| 11 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 extended | obj |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 Eritrea | case |
| 13 | Eritrea | Eritrea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 realm | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 region | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 region | det |
| 16 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 region | amod |
| 17 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 realm | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Ethiopia | case |
| 19 | Ethiopia | Ethiopia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 region | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 maintained | punct |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 26 maintained | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Kingdom | det |
| 23 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 maintained | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Aksum | case |
| 25 | Aksum | Aksum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Kingdom | nmod |
| 26 | maintained | maintain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 extended | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 civilisation | det |
| 28 | unified | unified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 civilisation | amod |
| 29 | civilisation | civilisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 maintained | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 region | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 region | det |
| 32 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 maintained | obl |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 years | case |
| 34 | 900 | 900 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 35 years | nummod |
| 35 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 maintained | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 extended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | extend | past | the Kingdom of D'mt | Kingdom's realm and the northern region of Ethiopia | 980 BC | over Eritrea | vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent realm=Theme | ||
| 2 | maintain | past | the Kingdom of Aksum | a unified civilisation | the region | year | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent civilisation=Theme |
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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