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title: However, in 1962, the government of Ethiopia annulled the Eritrean p… — Eritrea · tree and pragmatics
description: However, in 1962, the government of Ethiopia annulled the Eritrean parliament and formally annexed Eritrea. Who acts: government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Eritrea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Eritrea, sentence 15

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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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However, in 1962, the government of Ethiopia annulled the Eritrean parliament and formally annexed Eritrea.

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**Who acts:** government · **What happens:** annul, annex · **To what, where:** Eritrean parliament, 1962, 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 (government), 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:15
# text = However, in 1962, the government of Ethiopia annulled the Eritrean parliament and formally annexed Eritrea.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	1962	1962	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	annulled	annul	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Eritrean	eritrean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	formally	formally	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	annexed	annex	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	Eritrea	Eritrea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **annul** | past | the government of Ethiopia | the Eritrean parliament |  | 1962 |  | however *property* | vn void-106 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parliament=Patient |
| 2 | **annex** | past | the government of Ethiopia *not said here* | Eritrea |  |  |  | formally *property* | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eritrea=Theme |

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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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