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title: The African Union is now housed in a new headquarters built on the s… — Addis Ababa · tree and pragmatics
description: The African Union is now housed in a new headquarters built on the site of the demolished Akaki Prison, on land donated by Ethiopia for this purpose in the southwestern part of the city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Addis Ababa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Addis Ababa, sentence 281

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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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The African Union is now housed in a new headquarters built on the site of the demolished Akaki Prison, on land donated by Ethiopia for this purpose in the southwestern part of the city.

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**What happens:** house, build, demolish, donate · **To what, where:** African Union, new headquarters, site, land, southwestern part

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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: 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:281
# text = The African Union is now housed in a new headquarters built on the site of the demolished Akaki Prison, on land donated by Ethiopia for this purpose in the southwestern part of the city.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	African	African	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	housed	house	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	headquarters	headquarters	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	obl	_	_
11	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	demolished	demolish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
18	Akaki	Akaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Prison	Prison	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
23	donated	donate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	southwestern	southwestern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **house** | present · passive |  | the African Union |  | a new headquarters | now | on land | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in headquarters=Location |
| 2 | **build** | participle |  | a new headquarters *not said here* |  | the site of the demolished Akaki Prison |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on site=Source |
| 3 | **demolish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **donate** | participle |  | land *not said here* |  | the southwestern part of the city |  | by Ethiopia; for this purpose | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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