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title: During the immediate postwar years, the British proposed that Eritre… — Eritrea · tree and pragmatics
description: During the immediate postwar years, the British proposed that Eritrea be divided along religious community lines and annexed partly to the British colony of Sudan and partly to Ethiopia. Who acts: British. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Eritrea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Eritrea, sentence 135

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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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During the immediate postwar years, the British proposed that Eritrea be divided along religious community lines and annexed partly to the British colony of Sudan and partly to Ethiopia.

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**Who acts:** British · **What happens:** propose, divide, annex · **To what, where:** Eritrea

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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), 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:135
# text = During the immediate postwar years, the British proposed that Eritrea be divided along religious community lines and annexed partly to the British colony of Sudan and partly to Ethiopia.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	immediate	immediate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	postwar	postwar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nsubj	_	_
9	proposed	propose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	Eritrea	Eritrea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	_
14	along	along	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	annexed	annex	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Sudan	Sudan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **propose** | past | the British |  |  |  | year |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **divide** | infinitive · passive |  | Eritrea |  |  |  | along religious community lines | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **annex** | past | the British *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the British colony of Sudan and Ethiopia; partly *property* | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: 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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