Ethiopia, sentence 88
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.
When the vessel stopped at a Red Sea port, the natives killed all the travellers except the two brothers, who were taken to the court as slaves.
Who acts: vessel, natives · What happens: stop, kill, take · To what, where: Sea port, travellers, two brothers, court
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 (vessel, natives), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 stopped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 vessel | det |
| 3 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stopped | nsubj |
| 4 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 port | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 port | det |
| 7 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Sea | compound |
| 8 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 port | compound |
| 9 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stopped | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 killed | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 natives | det |
| 12 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 killed | nsubj |
| 13 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 port | acl:relcl |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 travellers | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 travellers | det |
| 16 | travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 killed | obj |
| 17 | except | except | ADP | _ | 20 brothers | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 brothers | det |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 brothers | nummod |
| 20 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 killed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 taken | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 taken | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 taken | aux:pass |
| 24 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 brothers | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 court | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 court | det |
| 27 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 taken | obl |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 slaves | case |
| 29 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 taken | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the vessel | a Sea port | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at port=Location | ||||
| 2 | kill | past | the natives | all travellers | except the two brothers | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent traveller=Theme | |||
| 3 | take | past · passive | the two brothers | the court | as slaves | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to court=Destination |
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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