Ethiopia, sentence 625
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.
Tihlo (ጥሕሎ), a type of dumpling prepared from roasted barley flour and originating from the Tigray Region, is now very popular in Amhara and spreading further south.
Who acts: Tihlo · What happens: prepare, roast, originate, be, spread, type · To what, where: dumpling, roasted barley flour, Tigray Region, Amhara
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 (Tihlo), 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 | Tihlo | Tihlo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 popular | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 ጥሕሎ | punct |
| 3 | ጥሕሎ | ጥሕሎ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tihlo | appos |
| 4 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 ጥሕሎ | punct |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 type | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 type | det |
| 7 | type | type | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tihlo | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 dumpling | case |
| 9 | dumpling | dumpling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 type | nmod |
| 10 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 dumpling | acl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 flour | case |
| 12 | roasted | roast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 flour | amod |
| 13 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flour | compound |
| 14 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prepared | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 originating | cc |
| 16 | originating | originate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 flour | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 Region | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Region | det |
| 19 | Tigray | Tigray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Region | compound |
| 20 | Region | Region | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 originating | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tihlo | punct |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 popular | cop |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 popular | advmod |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 popular | advmod |
| 25 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 Amhara | case |
| 27 | Amhara | Amhara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 popular | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 spreading | cc |
| 29 | spreading | spread | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 popular | conj |
| 30 | further | further | ADV | _ | 31 south | advmod |
| 31 | south | south | ADV | _ | 29 spreading | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 popular | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | participle | dumpling not said here | roasted barley flour | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent from flour=Material | ||||
| 2 | roast | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | originate | gerund | the Tigray Region | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | Tihlo | Amhara | now | popular property | tree rules | ||
| 5 | spread | gerund | Tihlo not said here | south property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | type | dumpling | nom type «cognition 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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