Abidjan, sentence 336
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.
It is a container transshipment port and was opened in 1951 in the presence of the Minister of Overseas and Colonies at the time, François Mitterrand.
Who acts: sub-region · What happens: be, open · To what, where: transshipment port, 1951
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 (sub-region), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 port | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 port | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 port | det |
| 4 | container | container | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 transshipment | compound |
| 5 | transshipment | transshipment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 port | compound |
| 6 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 opened | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 opened | aux:pass |
| 9 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 port | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 1951 | case |
| 11 | 1951 | 1951 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 opened | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 presence | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 presence | det |
| 14 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 opened | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Minister | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Minister | det |
| 17 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 presence | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Overseas | case |
| 19 | Overseas | Overseas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Minister | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Colonies | cc |
| 21 | Colonies | colony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 presence | conj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 time | det |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 opened | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 François | punct |
| 26 | François | François | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 port | conj |
| 27 | Mitterrand | Mitterrand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 François | flat |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 port | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | sub-region | a transshipment port and François | François conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | open | past · passive | sub-region not said here | 1951 | time | in the presence of the Minister of Overseas and Colonies | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: in 1951=Location |
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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