--- title: 1,500 peasants in Addis Ababa marched to plead for food to be return… — Addis Ababa · tree and pragmatics description: 1,500 peasants in Addis Ababa marched to plead for food to be returned by police, and intellectual from Addis Ababa University forced the government to take a measure against the spreading famine, a report which Haile Selassie government denounced as "fabrication". 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The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too. 1,500 peasants in Addis Ababa marched to plead for food to be returned by police, and intellectual from Addis Ababa University forced the government to take a measure against the spreading famine, a report which Haile Selassie government denounced as "fabrication". **Who acts:** 1,500 peasants, police, government, Haile government · **What happens:** march, plead, return, force, take, spread · **To what, where:** government, measure, spreading famine, report This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Addis Ababa». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (1,500 peasants, police, government, Haile government), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Addis_Ababa:102 # text = 1,500 peasants in Addis Ababa marched to plead for food to be returned by police, and intellectual from Addis Ababa University forced the government to take a measure against the spreading famine, a report which Haile Selassie government denounced as "fabrication". 1 1,500 1,500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 peasants peasant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 Addis Addis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Ababa Ababa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 marched march VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 plead plead VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 returned return VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 advcl _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 intellectual intellectual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 Addis Addis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 Ababa Ababa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 University University PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 flat _ _ 23 forced force VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 measure measure NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 against against ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 spreading spread VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 amod _ _ 33 famine famine NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 report report NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 37 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 obj _ _ 38 Haile Haile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 39 Selassie Selassie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 flat _ _ 40 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 denounced denounce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 42 as as ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 " " PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 fabrication fabrication NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **march** | past | 1,500 peasants in Addis Ababa | | | | | a report *parataxis* | tree rules | | 2 | **plead** *speech: request* | to-infinitive | 1,500 peasants in Addis Ababa *not said here* | | | | | for food | tree rules | | 3 | **return** | to-infinitive · passive | police | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **force** | past | 1,500 peasants in Addis Ababa *not said here* | the government | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent government=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **take** | to-infinitive | the government *not said here* | a measure | | the spreading famine | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent measure=Theme against famine=Destination | | 6 | **spread** | gerund | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **denounce** | past | Haile government | a report | | | | as fabrication | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent which=Theme as fabrication=Attribute | 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Addis Ababa», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0. - ← previous: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Addis_Ababa/101/) - next →: [sentence 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Addis_Ababa/103/) - ↑ back to [Addis Ababa](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Addis_Ababa/)