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title: The historian Herodotus used the appellation to denote those parts o… — Ethiopia · tree and pragmatics
description: The historian Herodotus used the appellation to denote those parts of Africa south of the Sahara that were then known within the Ecumene (habitable world). Who acts: historian. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ethiopia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ethiopia, sentence 39

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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 historian Herodotus used the appellation to denote those parts of Africa south of the Sahara that were then known within the Ecumene (habitable world).

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**Who acts:** historian · **What happens:** use, denote, know · **To what, where:** appellation, parts, Sahara

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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 (historian), 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:39
# text = The historian Herodotus used the appellation to denote those parts of Africa south of the Sahara that were then known within the Ecumene (habitable world).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	historian	historian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Herodotus	Herodotus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	appellation	appellation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	denote	denote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	south	south	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Sahara	Sahara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	within	within	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Ecumene	Ecumene	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	habitable	habitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | the historian | the appellation |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appellation=Patient |
| 2 | **denote** | to-infinitive | the historian *not said here* | that parts of Africa |  |  |  | of the Sahara | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot part=Topic |
| 3 | **know** | past · passive |  | the Sahara |  |  | then | within the Ecumene | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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