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title: Most of the languages spoken in Eritrea belong to the Ethiopian Semi… — Eritrea · tree and pragmatics
description: Most of the languages spoken in Eritrea belong to the Ethiopian Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic family. Who acts: Most. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Eritrea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Eritrea, sentence 407

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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 of the languages spoken in Eritrea belong to the Ethiopian Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic family.

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**Who acts:** Most · **What happens:** speak, belong · **To what, where:** languages, Eritrea · **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), 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:407
# text = Most of the languages spoken in Eritrea belong to the Ethiopian Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic family.
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Eritrea	Eritrea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	belong	belong	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	Ethiopian	ethiopian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Semitic	Semitic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Afroasiatic	afroasiatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle |  | the languages *not said here* |  | Eritrea |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **belong** | present | Most of the languages |  |  |  |  | to the Ethiopian Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic family | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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