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title: Many NGOs are working to solve this problem; however, most are far a… — Ethiopia · tree and pragmatics
description: Many NGOs are working to solve this problem; however, most are far apart, uncoordinated, and working in isolation. Who acts: Many NGOs, most. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ethiopia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ethiopia, sentence 433

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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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Many NGOs are working to solve this problem; however, most are far apart, uncoordinated, and working in isolation.

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**Who acts:** Many NGOs, most · **What happens:** work, solve, be, uncoordinat · **To what, where:** problem

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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 (Many NGOs, most), 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:433
# text = Many NGOs are working to solve this problem; however, most are far apart, uncoordinated, and working in isolation.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	NGOs	ngo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	solve	solve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
10	however	however	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	uncoordinated	uncoordinat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	isolation	isolation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present · progressive | Many NGOs |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **solve** | to-infinitive | Many NGOs *not said here* | this problem |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present | most |  |  |  |  | apart, far *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **uncoordinat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | however *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **work** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | in isolation | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in isolation=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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