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title: The British placed Eritrea under British military administration unt… — Eritrea · tree and pragmatics
description: The British placed Eritrea under British military administration until Allied forces could decide its fate. Who acts: British, Allied forces. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Eritrea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Eritrea, sentence 133

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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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The British placed Eritrea under British military administration until Allied forces could decide its fate.

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**Who acts:** British, Allied forces · **What happens:** place, ally, decide, fate · **To what, where:** Eritrea, British military administration, fate

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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 (British, Allied forces), 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:133
# text = The British placed Eritrea under British military administration until Allied forces could decide its fate.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	British	British	PROPN	NNP	_	3	nsubj	_	_
3	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Eritrea	Eritrea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	administration	administration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	Allied	ally	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	decide	decide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past | the British | Eritrea |  | British military administration |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent eritrea=Theme under administration=Destination |
| 2 | **ally** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conspire-71 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **decide** | could | Allied forces | British's fate |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent fate=Topic |
| 4 | **fate** |  | British |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=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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