Ethiopia, sentence 86
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.
There is faint evidence that the Aksumites were associated with the Queen of Sheba, via their royal inscription.
Who acts: faint evidence, Aksumites · What happens: be, associate, inscribe · To what, where: Aksumites
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 (faint evidence, Aksumites), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 evidence | amod |
| 4 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 associated | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Aksumites | det |
| 7 | Aksumites | Aksumite | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 associated | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 associated | aux:pass |
| 9 | associated | associate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 evidence | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 Queen | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Queen | det |
| 12 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 associated | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Sheba | case |
| 14 | Sheba | Sheba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Queen | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 inscription | punct |
| 16 | via | via | ADP | _ | 19 inscription | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 inscription | nmod:poss |
| 18 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 inscription | amod |
| 19 | inscription | inscription | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 associated | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | faint evidence | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | associate | past · passive | faint evidence not said here | the Aksumites | with the Queen of Sheba; via Aksumites's royal inscription | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with queen=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | inscribe | Aksumites = aksumite | nom inscription «communication transitive»: poss=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.
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