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title: It was founded by Emperor Haile Selassie in 1955, who eponymously re… — Addis Ababa · tree and pragmatics
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# Addis Ababa, sentence 300

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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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It was founded by Emperor Haile Selassie in 1955, who eponymously renamed it.

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**Who acts:** Emperor · **What happens:** found, rename · **To what, where:** Theatre, 1955

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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 (Emperor), 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:300
# text = It was founded by Emperor Haile Selassie in 1955, who eponymously renamed it.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	_
6	Haile	Haile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	Selassie	Selassie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1955	1955	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	eponymously	eponymously	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	renamed	rename	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **found** | past · passive | Emperor | Theatre |  | 1955 |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **rename** | past |  | Theatre |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; eponymously *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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