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title: Though city planners, architects, and engineers were largely Europea… — Eritrea · tree and pragmatics
description: Though city planners, architects, and engineers were largely European and members of the indigenous population were largely used as construction workers, Asmarinos still identify with their city's legacy. Who acts: engineers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Eritrea» with its dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Eritrea, sentence 479

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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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Though city planners, architects, and engineers were largely European and members of the indigenous population were largely used as construction workers, Asmarinos still identify with their city's legacy.

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**Who acts:** engineers · **What happens:** be, use, identify · **To what, where:** members, city planners

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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 (engineers), 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:479
# text = Though city planners, architects, and engineers were largely European and members of the indigenous population were largely used as construction workers, Asmarinos still identify with their city's legacy.
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	planners	planner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	architects	architect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	engineers	engineer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
13	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Asmarinos	Asmarinos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
26	still	still	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	identify	identify	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	legacy	legacy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | engineers |  |  |  |  | european, largely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | past · passive |  | members of the indigenous population |  |  |  | as construction workers; largely *property* | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as worker=Attribute |
| 3 | **identify** | present |  |  |  |  | still | with member's city's legacy | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer with legacy=Stimulus |

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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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