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title: By the 16th century, an influx of migration by ethnic Oromo into nor… — Ethiopia · tree and pragmatics
description: By the 16th century, an influx of migration by ethnic Oromo into northern parts of the region fragmented the empire's power. Who acts: influx, ethnic Oromo. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ethiopia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ethiopia, sentence 109

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From Wikipedia, [«Ethiopia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopia), 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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By the 16th century, an influx of migration by ethnic Oromo into northern parts of the region fragmented the empire's power.

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**Who acts:** influx, ethnic Oromo · **What happens:** fragment, migrate · **To what, where:** power

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ethiopia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (influx, ethnic Oromo), 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:Ethiopia:109
# text = By the 16th century, an influx of migration by ethnic Oromo into northern parts of the region fragmented the empire's power.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	16th	16th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	influx	influx	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	migration	migration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Oromo	Oromo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	fragmented	fragment	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fragment** | past | a influx of migration by ethnic Oromo into northern parts of the region | the empire's power |  |  | century |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
| 2 | **migrate** |  | ethnic Oromo |  |  |  |  |  | nom migration «act intransitive»: by=agent |

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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, «Ethiopia», 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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