Abidjan, sentence 51
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.
During World War II, France's Vichy government completed construction of the Port in Abidjan to counter British influence.
Who acts: Vichy government · What happens: complete, counter, construct · To what, where: construction, British influence, Port
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 (Vichy 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 War | case |
| 2 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 War | compound |
| 3 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 completed | obl |
| 4 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 3 War | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 War | punct |
| 6 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Vichy | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 France | case |
| 8 | Vichy | Vichy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 government | compound |
| 9 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 completed | nsubj |
| 10 | completed | complete | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | construction | construction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 completed | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Port | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Port | det |
| 14 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 construction | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Abidjan | case |
| 16 | Abidjan | Abidjan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Port | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 counter | mark |
| 18 | counter | counter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 completed | advcl |
| 19 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 influence | amod |
| 20 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 counter | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 completed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complete | past | Vichy government | construction of the Port in Abidjan | during World War | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent construction=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | counter | to-infinitive | Vichy government not said here | British influence | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent influence=Theme | ||||
| 3 | construct | the Port in Abidjan | 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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