Abidjan, sentence 160
From Wikipedia, «Abidjan», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Under the presidency of Laurent Gbagbo (2000–11), efforts were made to give effect to the project of making the political capital Yamoussoukro in Côte d'Ivoire.
Who acts: efforts, project · What happens: make, give · To what, where: efforts, presidency, effect, project, political capital
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Abidjan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (efforts, project), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 presidency | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 presidency | det |
| 3 | presidency | presidency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Laurent | case |
| 5 | Laurent | Laurent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 presidency | nmod |
| 6 | Gbagbo | Gbagbo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Laurent | flat |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 2000 | punct |
| 8 | 2000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 Laurent | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 10 11 | case |
| 10 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 2000 | nmod |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 2000 | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 presidency | punct |
| 13 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 made | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 made | aux:pass |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 give | mark |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 made | xcomp |
| 18 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 project | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 project | det |
| 21 | project | project | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obl |
| 22 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 23 making | mark |
| 23 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 project | acl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 capital | det |
| 25 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 capital | amod |
| 26 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 making | obj |
| 27 | Yamoussoukro | Yamoussoukro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 capital | appos |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 d'Ivoire | case |
| 29 | Côte | Côte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 d'Ivoire | compound |
| 30 | d'Ivoire | d'Ivoire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Yamoussoukro | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | efforts | the presidency of Laurent 2000 – 11 | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | efforts not said here | effect | the project | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent effect=Theme to project=Recipient | |||
| 3 | make | gerund | the project not said here | the political capital | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset capital=Product |
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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