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title: A coin dated to 324 shows that Ethiopia was the second country to of… — Ethiopia · tree and pragmatics
description: A coin dated to 324 shows that Ethiopia was the second country to officially adopt Christianity (after Armenia did so in 301), although the religion may have been at first confined to court circles; it was the first major power to do so. Who acts: coin, Ethiopia, Armenia, religion. A sentence of Wik
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# Ethiopia, sentence 91

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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 coin dated to 324 shows that Ethiopia was the second country to officially adopt Christianity (after Armenia did so in 301), although the religion may have been at first confined to court circles; it was the first major power to do so.

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**Who acts:** coin, Ethiopia, Armenia, religion · **What happens:** date, show, be, adopt, do, confine · **To what, where:** coin, second country, Christianity, religion, court circles, first major power · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (coin, Ethiopia, Armenia, religion), 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:91
# text = A coin dated to 324 shows that Ethiopia was the second country to officially adopt Christianity (after Armenia did so in 301), although the religion may have been at first confined to court circles; it was the first major power to do so.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	dated	date	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	324	324	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	adopt	adopt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
16	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	Armenia	Armenia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	301	301	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
26	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux	_	_
31	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	aux:pass	_	_
32	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	34	advmod	_	_
34	confined	confine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	circles	circle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	44	amod	_	_
43	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	acl	_	_
47	so	so	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **date** | participle |  | a coin *not said here* |  |  |  | to 324 | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **show** | present | a coin |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Ethiopia | the second country and the first major power |  |  |  | Christianity *appos* | tree rules |
| 4 | **adopt** | to-infinitive | Ethiopia *not said here* |  |  |  |  | officially *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **do** | past | Armenia | Christianity *not said here* |  |  |  | 301 *parataxis* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christianity=Eventuality |
| 6 | **confine** | may · perfect · passive |  | the religion |  | court circles |  | first *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to circle=Destination |
| 7 | **is a** | past | religion | the first major power |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **do** | to-infinitive | Ethiopia *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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