Abidjan, sentence 169
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.
After al-Qaeda militants targeted beachgoers at Grand-Bassam in March 2016, the French government announced it would increase its troop deployment in Côte d'Ivoire from 500 to 900.
Who acts: al, French government, government · What happens: target, announce, increase, deploy · To what, where: beachgoers, Grand Bassam, troop deployment · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (al, French government, government), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 targeted | mark |
| 2 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 targeted | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 al | punct |
| 4 | Qaeda | Qaeda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 al | flat |
| 5 | militants | militant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 targeted | nsubj |
| 6 | targeted | target | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | beachgoers | beachgoer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 targeted | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Bassam | case |
| 9 | Grand | Grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Bassam | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Bassam | punct |
| 11 | Bassam | Bassam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 targeted | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 March | case |
| 13 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Bassam | nmod |
| 14 | 2016 | 2016 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 March | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 announced | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 government | det |
| 17 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 government | amod |
| 18 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 announced | nsubj |
| 19 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Bassam | parataxis |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 increase | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 increase | aux |
| 22 | increase | increase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 announced | ccomp |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 deployment | nmod:poss |
| 24 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 deployment | compound |
| 25 | deployment | deployment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 increase | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 d'Ivoire | case |
| 27 | Côte | Côte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 d'Ivoire | compound |
| 28 | d'Ivoire | d'Ivoire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 increase | obl |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 500 | case |
| 30 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 increase | obl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 900 | case |
| 32 | 900 | 900 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 500 | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 targeted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | target | past | al | beachgoers | Grand Bassam in March 2016 | militants nsubj | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beachgoer=Theme | ||
| 2 | announce speech: other | past | the French government | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | increase | would | government | government's troop deployment | from 500 to 900; in Côte d'Ivoire | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.initial_state PP.result»: agent=Patient deployment=Extent in d'ivoire=Attribute from 500=Initial_State | |||
| 4 | deploy | government | nom deployment «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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