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title: Following the entry of Italy into World War II, British Empire force… — Ethiopia · tree and pragmatics
description: Following the entry of Italy into World War II, British Empire forces, together with the Arbegnoch, liberated Ethiopia in the course of the East African campaign in 1941. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ethiopia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ethiopia, sentence 153

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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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Following the entry of Italy into World War II, British Empire forces, together with the Arbegnoch, liberated Ethiopia in the course of the East African campaign in 1941.

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**What happens:** follow, liberate, enter · **To what, where:** Ethiopia, course, Italy, World War

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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: 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:153
# text = Following the entry of Italy into World War II, British Empire forces, together with the Arbegnoch, liberated Ethiopia in the course of the East African campaign in 1941.
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	entry	entry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	together	together	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Arbegnoch	Arbegnoch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
20	liberated	liberate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	campaign	campaign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	1941	1941	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **liberate** | past |  | Ethiopia |  | the course of the East African campaign |  | follow the entry of Italy into World War and British Empire forces; in 1941 | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ethiopia=Theme |
| 3 | **enter** |  |  | Italy |  | World War |  |  | nom entry «communication transitive»: of=patient into=place |

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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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