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title: The impetus involved a major border conflict, notably around Badme a… — Eritrea · tree and pragmatics
description: The impetus involved a major border conflict, notably around Badme and Zalambessa, and was not resolved until 2018. Who acts: impetus. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Eritrea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Eritrea, sentence 263

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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 impetus involved a major border conflict, notably around Badme and Zalambessa, and was not resolved until 2018.

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**Who acts:** impetus · **What happens:** involve, not resolve · **To what, where:** major border conflict

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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 (impetus), 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:263
# text = The impetus involved a major border conflict, notably around Badme and Zalambessa, and was not resolved until 2018.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	impetus	impetus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	involved	involve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	notably	notably	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	around	around	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Badme	Badme	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Zalambessa	Zalambessa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
19	until	until	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	2018	2018	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **involve** | past | the impetus | a major border conflict |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conflict=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **resolve** | past · passive | the impetus *not said here* |  |  |  | until 2018 |  | 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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