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title: It engaged in clandestine political activities intended to cultivate… — Eritrea · tree and pragmatics
description: It engaged in clandestine political activities intended to cultivate resistance to the centralizing policies of the imperial Ethiopian state. Who acts: organization. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Eritrea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Eritrea, sentence 153

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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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It engaged in clandestine political activities intended to cultivate resistance to the centralizing policies of the imperial Ethiopian state.

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**Who acts:** organization · **What happens:** engage, intend, cultivate, centralize · **To what, where:** political activities, clandestine, resistance

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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 (organization), 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:153
# text = It engaged in clandestine political activities intended to cultivate resistance to the centralizing policies of the imperial Ethiopian state.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	engaged	engage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	clandestine	clandestine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	activities	activity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	intended	intend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	cultivate	cultivate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	resistance	resistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	centralizing	centralize	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	policies	policy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	imperial	imperial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	Ethiopian	ethiopian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **engage** | past | organization | political activities |  |  |  | in clandestine *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent activity=Theme in clandestine=Goal |
| 2 | **intend** | participle |  | political activities *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **cultivate** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | resistance |  |  |  | to the centralizing policies of the imperial Ethiopian state | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resistance=Product |
| 4 | **centralize** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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