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title: On 28 May 1991, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Fron… — Addis Ababa · tree and pragmatics
description: On 28 May 1991, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), a coalition party in course of overthrowing the Derg, seized Addis Ababa. Who acts: coalition party. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Addis Ababa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Addis Ababa, sentence 123

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From Wikipedia, [«Addis Ababa»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addis_Ababa), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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On 28 May 1991, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), a coalition party in course of overthrowing the Derg, seized Addis Ababa.

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**Who acts:** coalition party · **What happens:** overthrow, seize · **To what, where:** Derg, Addis Ababa

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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 (coalition party), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:123
# text = On 28 May 1991, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), a coalition party in course of overthrowing the Derg, seized Addis Ababa.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	28	28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
4	1991	1991	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Ethiopian	Ethiopian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	People	People	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	Revolutionary	Revolutionary	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	12	compound	_	_
11	Democratic	Democratic	PROPN	NNP	_	12	compound	_	_
12	Front	Front	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	EPRDF	EPRDF	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	coalition	coalition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	overthrowing	overthrow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Derg	Derg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
27	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	Addis	Addis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Ababa	Ababa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overthrow** | gerund | a coalition party in course *not said here* | the Derg |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **seize** | past |  | Addis Ababa |  |  | may |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ababa=Theme |

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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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**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.

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