--- title: After the occupation, the city served as the Duke of Aosta's capital… — Addis Ababa · tree and pragmatics description: After the occupation, the city served as the Duke of Aosta's capital for unified Italian East Africa until 1941, when it was abandoned in favour of Amba Alagi and other redoubts during the Second World War's East African Campaign. Who acts: Second World War. 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After the occupation, the city served as the Duke of Aosta's capital for unified Italian East Africa until 1941, when it was abandoned in favour of Amba Alagi and other redoubts during the Second World War's East African Campaign. **Who acts:** Second World War · **What happens:** serve, abandon, favour, campaign · **To what, where:** city, favour, Amba 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 (Second World War), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:77 # text = After the occupation, the city served as the Duke of Aosta's capital for unified Italian East Africa until 1941, when it was abandoned in favour of Amba Alagi and other redoubts during the Second World War's East African Campaign. 1 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 occupation occupation NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 7 served serve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Duke Duke PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 Aosta Aosta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 unified unified ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 17 Italian Italian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 20 until until ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 1941 1941 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 abandoned abandon VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 favour favour NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Amba Amba PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 31 Alagi Alagi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 flat _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 redoubts redoubt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 35 during during ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 37 Second Second ADJ NNP Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 39 amod _ _ 38 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 War War PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 40 's 's PART POS _ 39 case _ _ 41 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 42 African African ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 Campaign campaign NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **serve** | participle | | the city *not said here* | | | until 1941 | as the Duke of Aosta's capital for unified Italian East Africa | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as duke=Attribute | | 2 | **abandon** | past · passive | | city | | favour of Amba and other redoubts | during the Second World War's East African Campaign | | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: subject=Source | | 4 | **favour** | | | Amba and other redoubts | | | | | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient | | 5 | **campaign** | | the Second World War | | | | | | nom campaign «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Addis_Ababa/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Addis_Ababa/78/) - ↑ back to [Addis Ababa](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Addis_Ababa/)