Abidjan, sentence 48
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 construction of the 15m-deep Vridi Canal in 1950 aided in this endeavor by connecting the Ebrié Lagoon to the sea.
Who acts: construction · What happens: aid, connect, construct · To what, where: endeavor, Ebrié Lagoon, 15m
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 (construction), 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 construction | det |
| 2 | construction | construction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 aided | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 15m | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 15m | det |
| 5 | 15m | 15m | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 2 construction | nmod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Canal | punct |
| 7 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Canal | amod |
| 8 | Vridi | Vridi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Canal | compound |
| 9 | Canal | Canal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 15m | appos |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 1950 | case |
| 11 | 1950 | 1950 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 Canal | nmod |
| 12 | aided | aid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 endeavor | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 endeavor | det |
| 15 | endeavor | endeavor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 aided | obl |
| 16 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 17 connecting | mark |
| 17 | connecting | connect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 aided | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Lagoon | det |
| 19 | Ebrié | Ebrié | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Lagoon | compound |
| 20 | Lagoon | Lagoon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 connecting | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 sea | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sea | det |
| 23 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 connecting | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 aided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aid | past | the construction of the 15m | this endeavor | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | connect | gerund | the construction of the 15m not said here | the Ebrié Lagoon | to the sea | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent lagoon=Patient to sea=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | construct | the 15m | nom construction «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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