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title: Addis Ababa Zoo kept 15 lions in 2011. — Addis Ababa · tree and pragmatics
description: Addis Ababa Zoo kept 15 lions in 2011. Who acts: Addis Ababa Zoo. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Addis Ababa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Addis Ababa, sentence 210

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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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Addis Ababa Zoo kept 15 lions in 2011.

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**Who acts:** Addis Ababa Zoo · **What happens:** keep · **To what, where:** 15 lions, 2011

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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 (Addis Ababa Zoo), 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:210
# text = Addis Ababa Zoo kept 15 lions in 2011.
1	Addis	Addis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Ababa	Ababa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	2011	2011	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | Addis Ababa Zoo | 15 lions |  | 2011 |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lion=Theme in 2011=Location |

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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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