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title: The best known philosophical revival was in the early modern period,… — Ethiopia · tree and pragmatics
description: The best known philosophical revival was in the early modern period, such as Zera Yacob (1599–1692) and his student Walda Heywat, who wrote Hatata (Inquiry) in 1667 as an argument for the existence of God. Who acts: best known philosophical revival, student, God. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ethiopia»
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# Ethiopia, sentence 558

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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 best known philosophical revival was in the early modern period, such as Zera Yacob (1599–1692) and his student Walda Heywat, who wrote Hatata (Inquiry) in 1667 as an argument for the existence of God.

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**Who acts:** best known philosophical revival, student, God · **What happens:** know, be, write, exist · **To what, where:** early modern period, Hatata, 1667

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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 (best known philosophical revival, student, God), 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:558
# text = The best known philosophical revival was in the early modern period, such as Zera Yacob (1599–1692) and his student Walda Heywat, who wrote Hatata (Inquiry) in 1667 as an argument for the existence of God.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
3	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
4	philosophical	philosophical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	revival	revival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	Zera	Zera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	Yacob	Yacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	1599	1599	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	1692	1692	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	student	student	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
25	Walda	Walda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
26	Heywat	Heywat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
30	Hatata	Hatata	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Inquiry	Inquiry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	1667	1667	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	obl	_	_
36	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | the best known philosophical revival |  |  | the early modern period |  | Zera *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **write** | past | Zera's student | Hatata |  | 1667 |  | as a argument for the existence of God | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hatata=Theme in 1667=Destination |
| 4 | **exist** |  | God |  |  |  |  |  | nom existence «state intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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