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title: Freedom House, who has worked on Ethiopia since 2008, indicates that… — Ethiopia · tree and pragmatics
description: Freedom House, who has worked on Ethiopia since 2008, indicates that Ethiopia is "Not Free" state due to very poor fundamental rights (political and civil liberties) recorded in both EPRDF and Prosperity Party regimes. Who acts: Freedom, Ethiopia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ethiopia» with its depend
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# Ethiopia, sentence 273

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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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Freedom House, who has worked on Ethiopia since 2008, indicates that Ethiopia is "Not Free" state due to very poor fundamental rights (political and civil liberties) recorded in both EPRDF and Prosperity Party regimes.

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**Who acts:** Freedom, Ethiopia · **What happens:** work, indicate, not be, record · **To what, where:** poor fundamental rights, EPRDF regimes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Freedom, 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:273
# text = Freedom House, who has worked on Ethiopia since 2008, indicates that Ethiopia is "Not Free" state due to very poor fundamental rights (political and civil liberties) recorded in both EPRDF and Prosperity Party regimes.
1	Freedom	Freedom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
2	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	worked	work	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	acl:relcl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	since	since	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	2008	2008	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	indicates	indicate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	Free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	vocative	_	_
21	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	26	case	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	fundamental	fundamental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
31	liberties	liberty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
33	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
35	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	40	det	_	_
36	EPRDF	EPRDF	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	Prosperity	Prosperity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	Party	Party	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
40	regimes	regime	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present · perfect | Freedom |  |  |  | since 2008 | on Ethiopia | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on ethiopia=Theme |
| 2 | **indicate** | present | Freedom |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | Ethiopia |  |  |  |  | due poor fundamental rights  political liberties; state *vocative*; free *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **record** | participle |  | poor fundamental rights  political liberties *not said here* |  | both EPRDF regimes |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in regime=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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