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title: Tihlo (ጥሕሎ), a type of dumpling prepared from roasted barley flour a… — Ethiopia · tree and pragmatics
description: Tihlo (ጥሕሎ), a type of dumpling prepared from roasted barley flour and originating from the Tigray Region, is now very popular in Amhara and spreading further south. Who acts: Tihlo. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ethiopia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ethiopia, sentence 625

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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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Tihlo (ጥሕሎ), a type of dumpling prepared from roasted barley flour and originating from the Tigray Region, is now very popular in Amhara and spreading further south.

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**Who acts:** Tihlo · **What happens:** prepare, roast, originate, be, spread, type · **To what, where:** dumpling, roasted barley flour, Tigray Region, Amhara

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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 (Tihlo), 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:625
# text = Tihlo (ጥሕሎ), a type of dumpling prepared from roasted barley flour and originating from the Tigray Region, is now very popular in Amhara and spreading further south.
1	Tihlo	Tihlo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	ጥሕሎ	ጥሕሎ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	dumpling	dumpling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	roasted	roast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
13	barley	barley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	originating	originate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Tigray	Tigray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Region	Region	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Amhara	Amhara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	spreading	spread	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	_
30	further	further	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	south	south	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prepare** | participle |  | dumpling *not said here* |  | roasted barley flour |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent from flour=Material |
| 2 | **roast** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **originate** | gerund |  |  |  | the Tigray Region |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | Tihlo |  |  | Amhara | now | popular *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **spread** | gerund | Tihlo *not said here* |  |  |  |  | south *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **type** |  |  | dumpling |  |  |  |  | nom type «cognition 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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