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title: Timkat ('Epiphany'), celebrated on 19 or 20 January, marks the bapti… — Ethiopia · tree and pragmatics
description: Timkat ('Epiphany'), celebrated on 19 or 20 January, marks the baptism of Jesus Christ by John the Baptist. Who acts: Timkat. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ethiopia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ethiopia, sentence 503

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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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Timkat ('Epiphany'), celebrated on 19 or 20 January, marks the baptism of Jesus Christ by John the Baptist.

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**Who acts:** Timkat · **What happens:** celebrate, mark · **To what, where:** Timkat, 19, baptism

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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 (Timkat), 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:503
# text = Timkat ('Epiphany'), celebrated on 19 or 20 January, marks the baptism of Jesus Christ by John the Baptist.
1	Timkat	Timkat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Epiphany	Epiphany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	19	19	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	conj	_	_
13	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
15	marks	mark	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	baptism	baptism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Baptist	Baptist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **celebrate** | participle |  | Timkat *not said here* |  | 19  January |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mark** | present | Timkat | the baptism of Jesus |  |  |  | by John | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent baptism=Theme by john=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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