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title: Though it differs among ethnic groups, traditional medicine often im… — Ethiopia · tree and pragmatics
description: Though it differs among ethnic groups, traditional medicine often implements herbs, spiritual healing, bone-setting and minor surgical procedures in treating disease. Who acts: source, minor surgical procedures. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ethiopia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ethiopia, sentence 383

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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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Though it differs among ethnic groups, traditional medicine often implements herbs, spiritual healing, bone-setting and minor surgical procedures in treating disease.

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**Who acts:** source, minor surgical procedures · **What happens:** differ, treat · **To what, where:** implements herbs, disease

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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 (source, minor surgical procedures), 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:383
# text = Though it differs among ethnic groups, traditional medicine often implements herbs, spiritual healing, bone-setting and minor surgical procedures in treating disease.
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	differs	differ	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	among	among	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	often	often	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	implements	implement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	compound	_	_
12	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	spiritual	spiritual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	healing	healing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	setting	setting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	minor	minor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	surgical	surgical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	procedures	procedure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
24	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	treating	treat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
26	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **differ** | present | source | implements herbs and spiritual healing and bone setting and minor surgical procedures |  |  |  | among ethnic groups | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **treat** | gerund | minor surgical procedures *not said here* | disease |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent disease=Recipient |

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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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