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title: On 10 March 1889, Yohannes IV was killed by the Sudanese Khalifah Ab… — Ethiopia · tree and pragmatics
description: On 10 March 1889, Yohannes IV was killed by the Sudanese Khalifah Abdullah's army whilst leading his army in the Battle of Gallabat. Who acts: army. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ethiopia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ethiopia, sentence 137

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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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On 10 March 1889, Yohannes IV was killed by the Sudanese Khalifah Abdullah's army whilst leading his army in the Battle of Gallabat.

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**Who acts:** army · **What happens:** kill, lead · **To what, where:** Yohannes, 10, army, Battle

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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 (army), 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:137
# text = On 10 March 1889, Yohannes IV was killed by the Sudanese Khalifah Abdullah's army whilst leading his army in the Battle of Gallabat.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
3	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	1889	1889	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	Yohannes	Yohannes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	IV	IV	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	Sudanese	Sudanese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Khalifah	Khalifah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Abdullah	Abdullah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Battle	Battle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Gallabat	Gallabat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past · passive | the Khalifah Abdullah's army | Yohannes |  | 10  1889  March |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | gerund | the Khalifah Abdullah's army *not said here* | Yohannes's army |  | the Battle of Gallabat |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent army=Theme in battle=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, «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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