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title: Thousands of Eritreans were concurrently enlisted in the Italian arm… — Eritrea · tree and pragmatics
description: Thousands of Eritreans were concurrently enlisted in the Italian army, serving during the Italo-Turkish War in Libya as well as the First and Second Italo-Abyssinian Wars. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Eritrea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Eritrea, sentence 113

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From Wikipedia, [«Eritrea»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eritrea), 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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Thousands of Eritreans were concurrently enlisted in the Italian army, serving during the Italo-Turkish War in Libya as well as the First and Second Italo-Abyssinian Wars.

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**What happens:** enlist, serve · **To what, where:** Thousands, Italian army

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Eritrea». 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:Eritrea:113
# text = Thousands of Eritreans were concurrently enlisted in the Italian army, serving during the Italo-Turkish War in Libya as well as the First and Second Italo-Abyssinian Wars.
1	Thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Eritreans	Eritrean	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	concurrently	concurrently	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	enlisted	enlist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Italian	Italian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	serving	serve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
13	during	during	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	Italo	Italo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Turkish	Turkish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Libya	Libya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	25	cc	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	fixed	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	First	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	Second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	conj	_	_
28	Italo	Italo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Abyssinian	Abyssinian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Wars	War	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enlist** | past · passive |  | Thousands of Eritreans |  | the Italian army |  | concurrently *property* | vn volunteer-95.4-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: subject=Pivot in army=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **serve** | gerund |  |  |  |  | during the Italo Turkish War in Libya |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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, «Eritrea», 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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