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title: Most residents speak languages from the Afroasiatic family, either f… — Eritrea · tree and pragmatics
description: Most residents speak languages from the Afroasiatic family, either from the Ethiopian Semitic languages or Cushitic branches. Who acts: Most residents. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Eritrea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Eritrea, sentence 22

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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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Most residents speak languages from the Afroasiatic family, either from the Ethiopian Semitic languages or Cushitic branches.

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**Who acts:** Most residents · **What happens:** speak · **To what, where:** languages, Afroasiatic family · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Most residents), 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:22
# text = Most residents speak languages from the Afroasiatic family, either from the Ethiopian Semitic languages or Cushitic branches.
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	residents	resident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Afroasiatic	afroasiatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc:preconj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	Ethiopian	Ethiopian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Semitic	Semitic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	Cushitic	Cushitic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | Most residents | languages |  | the Afroasiatic family |  | from the Semitic languages or Cushitic branches | tree rules |

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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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