--- title: After il Duce declared the birth of the Italian Empire in May 1936,… — Eritrea · tree and pragmatics description: After il Duce declared the birth of the Italian Empire in May 1936, Italian Eritrea (enlarged with northern Ethiopia's regions) and Italian Somaliland were merged with the just-conquered Ethiopia into the new Italian East Africa (Africa Orientale Italiana). Who acts: il. 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After il Duce declared the birth of the Italian Empire in May 1936, Italian Eritrea (enlarged with northern Ethiopia's regions) and Italian Somaliland were merged with the just-conquered Ethiopia into the new Italian East Africa (Africa Orientale Italiana). **Who acts:** il · **What happens:** declare, enlarge, merge, conquer · **To what, where:** birth, Italian Eritrea, May, new East Africa 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 (il), 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:Eritrea:120 # text = After il Duce declared the birth of the Italian Empire in May 1936, Italian Eritrea (enlarged with northern Ethiopia's regions) and Italian Somaliland were merged with the just-conquered Ethiopia into the new Italian East Africa (Africa Orientale Italiana). 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 il IL PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 Duce Duce PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 declared declare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 of of 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 Empire Empire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 1936 1936 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 Italian Italian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 Eritrea Eritrea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 17 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 enlarged enlarge VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 northern northern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 Ethiopia Ethiopia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 regions region NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 Italian Italian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 Somaliland Somaliland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 28 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 merged merge VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 32 just just ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 conquered conquer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 amod _ _ 35 Ethiopia Ethiopia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 36 into into ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 38 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 39 Italian Italian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 42 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 Orientale Orientale PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 appos _ _ 45 Italiana Italiana PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | il | the birth of the Italian Empire | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Attribute | | 2 | **enlarge** | participle | | Italian Eritrea *not said here* | | | | with northern Ethiopia's regions | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with region=Instrument | | 3 | **merge** | past · passive | | May 1936 and Italian Eritrea and Italian Somaliland | | the new East Africa | | with the conquered Ethiopia | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with ethiopia=Co-Patient | | 4 | **conquer** | participle | | | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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, «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. - ← previous: [sentence 119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Eritrea/119/) - next →: [sentence 121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Eritrea/121/) - ↑ back to [Eritrea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Eritrea/)