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title: In May 1865, much of the coastal lowlands came under the rule of the… — Eritrea · tree and pragmatics
description: In May 1865, much of the coastal lowlands came under the rule of the Khedivate of Egypt, until it was transferred to Italy in February 1885. Who acts: much, Khedivate. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Eritrea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Eritrea, sentence 12

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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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In May 1865, much of the coastal lowlands came under the rule of the Khedivate of Egypt, until it was transferred to Italy in February 1885.

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**Who acts:** much, Khedivate · **What happens:** come, transfer, rule · **To what, where:** rule, attempt, Italy

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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: who acts (much, Khedivate), 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:12
# text = In May 1865, much of the coastal lowlands came under the rule of the Khedivate of Egypt, until it was transferred to Italy in February 1885.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
3	1865	1865	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	lowlands	lowland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Khedivate	Khedivate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	transferred	transfer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	1885	1885	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | much of the coastal lowlands |  |  | the rule of the Khedivate of Egypt | may |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under rule=Location |
| 2 | **transfer** | past · passive |  | attempt | Italy |  | february |  | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to italy=Recipient |
| 3 | **rule** |  | the Khedivate of Egypt |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=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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