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title: With a focused investment in public infrastructure and industrial pa… — Ethiopia · tree and pragmatics
description: With a focused investment in public infrastructure and industrial parks, Ethiopia is attempting to address its structural problems by becoming a hub for light manufacturing in Africa. Who acts: Ethiopia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ethiopia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ethiopia, sentence 316

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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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With a focused investment in public infrastructure and industrial parks, Ethiopia is attempting to address its structural problems by becoming a hub for light manufacturing in Africa.

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**Who acts:** Ethiopia · **What happens:** focus, attempt, address, become · **To what, where:** structural problems, hub

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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:316
# text = With a focused investment in public infrastructure and industrial parks, Ethiopia is attempting to address its structural problems by becoming a hub for light manufacturing in Africa.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	focused	focus	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	investment	investment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	infrastructure	infrastructure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	industrial	industrial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	parks	park	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	attempting	attempt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	address	address	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	structural	structural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hub	hub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	manufacturing	manufacturing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **focus** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **attempt** | present · progressive | Ethiopia |  |  |  |  | with a focused investment in public infrastructure and industrial parks | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **address** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Ethiopia *not said here* | investment's structural problems |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Destination |
| 4 | **become** | gerund | Ethiopia *not said here* | a hub |  |  |  | for light manufacturing in Africa | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient hub=Result |

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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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