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title: Between 1769 and 1855, Ethiopia witnessed the Zemene Mesafint or "Ag… — Ethiopia · tree and pragmatics
description: Between 1769 and 1855, Ethiopia witnessed the Zemene Mesafint or "Age of Princes," a period of isolation. Who acts: Ethiopia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ethiopia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ethiopia, sentence 127

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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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Between 1769 and 1855, Ethiopia witnessed the Zemene Mesafint or "Age of Princes," a period of isolation.

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**Who acts:** Ethiopia · **What happens:** witness · **To what, where:** Zemene Mesafint

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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 (Ethiopia), 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:127
# text = Between 1769 and 1855, Ethiopia witnessed the Zemene Mesafint or "Age of Princes," a period of isolation.
1	Between	between	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1769	1769	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	1855	1855	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	witnessed	witness	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Zemene	Zemene	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Mesafint	Mesafint	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	isolation	isolation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **witness** | past | Ethiopia |  | the Zemene Mesafint or Age of Princes |  |  | between 1769 | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mesafint=Beneficiary |

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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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