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title: There is faint evidence that the Aksumites were associated with the… — Ethiopia · tree and pragmatics
description: There is faint evidence that the Aksumites were associated with the Queen of Sheba, via their royal inscription. Who acts: faint evidence, Aksumites. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ethiopia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ethiopia, sentence 86

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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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There is faint evidence that the Aksumites were associated with the Queen of Sheba, via their royal inscription.

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**Who acts:** faint evidence, Aksumites · **What happens:** be, associate, inscribe · **To what, where:** Aksumites

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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 (faint evidence, Aksumites), 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:86
# text = There is faint evidence that the Aksumites were associated with the Queen of Sheba, via their royal inscription.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Aksumites	Aksumite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	associated	associate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Sheba	Sheba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	via	via	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	inscription	inscription	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | faint evidence |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **associate** | past · passive | faint evidence *not said here* | the Aksumites |  |  |  | with the Queen of Sheba; via Aksumites's royal inscription | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with queen=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **inscribe** |  | Aksumites *= aksumite* |  |  |  |  |  | nom inscription «communication transitive»: poss=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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