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title: A lunar-stellar calendar, this Oromo calendar relies on astronomical… — Ethiopia · tree and pragmatics
description: A lunar-stellar calendar, this Oromo calendar relies on astronomical observations of the moon in conjunction with seven particular stars or constellations. Who acts: lunar stellar calendar. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ethiopia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ethiopia, sentence 586

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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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A lunar-stellar calendar, this Oromo calendar relies on astronomical observations of the moon in conjunction with seven particular stars or constellations.

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**Who acts:** lunar stellar calendar · **What happens:** rely, observe · **To what, where:** moon

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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 (lunar stellar calendar), 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:586
# text = A lunar-stellar calendar, this Oromo calendar relies on astronomical observations of the moon in conjunction with seven particular stars or constellations.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	lunar	lunar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	stellar	stellar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	calendar	calendar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	Oromo	Oromo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	calendar	calendar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	relies	rely	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	astronomical	astronomical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	observations	observation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	conjunction	conjunction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
21	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	constellations	constellation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rely** | present | a lunar stellar calendar |  |  |  |  | in conjunction with seven particular stars or constellations; on astronomical observations of the moon; this Oromo calendar *nsubj* | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on observation=Theme |
| 2 | **observe** |  |  | the moon |  |  |  |  | nom observation «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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