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title: The Rashaida first came to Eritrea in the nineteenth century, from t… — Eritrea · tree and pragmatics
description: The Rashaida first came to Eritrea in the nineteenth century, from the Hejaz region. Who acts: Rashaida. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Eritrea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Eritrea, sentence 394

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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 Rashaida first came to Eritrea in the nineteenth century, from the Hejaz region.

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**Who acts:** Rashaida · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** Eritrea, Hejaz region

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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 (Rashaida), 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:394
# text = The Rashaida first came to Eritrea in the nineteenth century, from the Hejaz region.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rashaida	Rashaida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Eritrea	Eritrea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	nineteenth	nineteenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Hejaz	Hejaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the Rashaida |  | Eritrea | the Hejaz region | century | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to eritrea=Initial\_Location from region=Destination |

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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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