Abidjan, sentence 175
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.
They are recruited by competitive examination held by the police administration.
Who acts: competitive examination · What happens: recruit, hold · To what, where: police, competitive examination
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 (competitive examination), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 recruited | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 recruited | aux:pass |
| 3 | recruited | recruit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 examination | case |
| 5 | competitive | competitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 examination | amod |
| 6 | examination | examination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 recruited | obl |
| 7 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 examination | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 administration | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 administration | det |
| 10 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 administration | compound |
| 11 | administration | administration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 held | obl:agent |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 recruited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recruit | present · passive | competitive examination | police | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hold | participle | competitive examination not said here | the police administration obl:agent | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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