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title: The House of Federation is chosen by the regional councils whereas M… — Ethiopia · tree and pragmatics
description: The House of Federation is chosen by the regional councils whereas MPs of the HoPR are elected directly, in turn, they elect the president for a six-year term and the prime minister for a 5-year term. Who acts: regional councils, MPs. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ethiopia» with its dependency tree and
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# Ethiopia, sentence 247

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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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The House of Federation is chosen by the regional councils whereas MPs of the HoPR are elected directly, in turn, they elect the president for a six-year term and the prime minister for a 5-year term.

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**Who acts:** regional councils, MPs · **What happens:** choose, elect · **To what, where:** House, MPs, president

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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 (regional councils, MPs), 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:247
# text = The House of Federation is chosen by the regional councils whereas MPs of the HoPR are elected directly, in turn, they elect the president for a six-year term and the prime minister for a 5-year term.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Federation	Federation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	regional	regional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	councils	council	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	MPs	mp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	HoPR	hopr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
18	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	elect	elect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	prime	prime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
39	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | present · passive | the regional councils | the House of Federation |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **elect** | present · passive |  | MPs of the HoPR |  |  |  | turn *parataxis*; directly *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **elect** | present | MPs *= mp* | the president |  |  |  | for a year term and the prime minister for a year term | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent president=Theme |

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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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