Abidjan, sentence 249
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.
The district of Cocody is also home to many single-storey wooden villas, surrounded by vast gardens of lush vegetation, fed by the heavy rains that water the city.
Who acts: district, many storey wooden villas · What happens: be, surround, feed · To what, where: many storey wooden villas, city
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 (district, many storey wooden villas), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 district | det |
| 2 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 villas | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Cocody | case |
| 4 | Cocody | Cocody | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 district | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 villas | cop |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 home | advmod |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 villas | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 villas | case |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 villas | amod |
| 10 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 storey | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 single | punct |
| 12 | storey | storey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 villas | compound |
| 13 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 villas | amod |
| 14 | villas | villa | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 surrounded | punct |
| 16 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 villas | acl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 gardens | case |
| 18 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 gardens | amod |
| 19 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 vegetation | case |
| 21 | lush | lush | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 vegetation | amod |
| 22 | vegetation | vegetation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gardens | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fed | punct |
| 24 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 villas | acl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 rains | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 rains | det |
| 27 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 rains | amod |
| 28 | rains | rain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 fed | obl |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 water | det |
| 30 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 rains | nmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 city | det |
| 32 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fed | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 villas | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the district of Cocody | to many storey wooden villas; home property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | surround | participle | many storey wooden villas not said here | vast gardens of lush vegetation obl:agent | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feed | participle | many storey wooden villas not said here | the city | by the heavy rains that water | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=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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