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title: Along with Dire Dawa, the city had been spared the aerial bombardmen… — Addis Ababa · tree and pragmatics
description: Along with Dire Dawa, the city had been spared the aerial bombardment (including the use of chemical weapons such as mustard gas) practiced elsewhere in Ethiopia. Who acts: aerial bombardment. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Addis Ababa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Addis Ababa, sentence 75

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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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Along with Dire Dawa, the city had been spared the aerial bombardment (including the use of chemical weapons such as mustard gas) practiced elsewhere in Ethiopia.

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**Who acts:** aerial bombardment · **What happens:** spare, include, practice, use · **To what, where:** city, Ethiopia, chemical weapons

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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 (aerial bombardment), 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:75
# text = Along with Dire Dawa, the city had been spared the aerial bombardment (including the use of chemical weapons such as mustard gas) practiced elsewhere in Ethiopia.
1	Along	along	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	Dire	Dire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Dawa	Dawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	spared	spare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	aerial	aerial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bombardment	bombardment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	including	include	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	chemical	chemical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	24	case	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	mustard	mustard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
26	practiced	practice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
27	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spare** | past · perfect · passive |  | the city |  |  |  | along Dire Dawa | tree rules |
| 2 | **include** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **practice** | past | the aerial bombardment |  |  | Ethiopia |  | elsewhere *property* | vn rehearse-26.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **use** |  |  | chemical weapons such mustard gas |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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