---
title: The Emperor of Ethiopia Tewodros I was soon killed by the Adal Sulta… — Djibouti · tree and pragmatics
description: The Emperor of Ethiopia Tewodros I was soon killed by the Adal Sultanate upon the return of Sa'ad ad-Din's heirs to the Horn of Africa. Who acts: Adal Sultanate, Sa'ad ad. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Djibouti» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Djibouti/138/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Djibouti](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Djibouti/) / 138

# Djibouti, sentence 138

<!-- div src -->

From Wikipedia, [«Djibouti»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djibouti), 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Emperor of Ethiopia Tewodros I was soon killed by the Adal Sultanate upon the return of Sa'ad ad-Din's heirs to the Horn of Africa.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Adal Sultanate, Sa'ad ad · **What happens:** kill, return · **To what, where:** Emperor

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Djibouti». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Adal Sultanate, Sa'ad ad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:Djibouti:138
# text = The Emperor of Ethiopia Tewodros I was soon killed by the Adal Sultanate upon the return of Sa'ad ad-Din's heirs to the Horn of Africa.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Tewodros	Tewodros	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Adal	Adal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Sultanate	Sultanate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Sa'ad	Sa'ad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	ad	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Din	Din	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	heirs	heir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Horn	Horn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past · passive | the Adal Sultanate | the Emperor of Ethiopia Tewodros |  |  |  | upon the return of Sa'ad ad  Din's heirs to the Horn of Africa; I *nsubj:pass*; soon *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **return** |  | Sa'ad ad  Din's heirs |  |  |  |  | to the Horn of Africa | nom return «communication intransitive»: of=agent to=obl |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Djibouti», 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Djibouti/137/)
- next →: [sentence 139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Djibouti/139/)
- ↑ back to [Djibouti](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Djibouti/)