Abidjan, sentence 510
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.
Although the origins of Ivorian rugby go back to the 1960s and earlier, French official Jean-François Turon managed the team at Abidjan University in the 1980s, but it was François Dali who created Ivorian rugby, and his son was the national captain during the 1990s.
Who acts: origins, French official François Turon, origin, François, son · What happens: go back, manage, be, create · To what, where: team, Abidjan University, François, Ivorian rugby, national captain
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 (origins, French official François Turon, origin, François), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 origins | det |
| 3 | origins | origin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 go | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 rugby | case |
| 5 | Ivorian | Ivorian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 rugby | compound |
| 6 | rugby | rugby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 origins | nmod |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 managed | advcl |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 1960s | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 1960s | det |
| 11 | 1960s | 1960s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 7 go | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 earlier | cc |
| 13 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 go | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 15 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Turon | amod |
| 16 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Turon | amod |
| 17 | Jean | Jean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 François | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Jean | punct |
| 19 | François | François | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Turon | compound |
| 20 | Turon | Turon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 managed | nsubj |
| 21 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 team | det |
| 23 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 managed | obj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 University | case |
| 25 | Abidjan | Abidjan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 University | compound |
| 26 | University | University | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 managed | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 1980s | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 1980s | det |
| 29 | 1980s | 1980s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 21 managed | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 created | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 created | cc |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 François | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 François | cop |
| 34 | François | François | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 created | nsubj |
| 35 | Dali | Dali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 François | flat |
| 36 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 created | nsubj |
| 37 | created | create | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 managed | parataxis |
| 38 | Ivorian | Ivorian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 rugby | compound |
| 39 | rugby | rugby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 created | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 captain | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 captain | cc |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 son | nmod:poss |
| 43 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 captain | nsubj |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 captain | cop |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 captain | det |
| 46 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 captain | amod |
| 47 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 created | obl |
| 48 | during | during | ADP | _ | 50 1990s | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 1990s | det |
| 50 | 1990s | 1990s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 47 captain | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 managed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | infinitive | the origins of Ivorian rugby | to the 1960s result; early property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to 1960s=Result | ||||
| 2 | manage | past | French official François Turon | the team | Abidjan University | in the 1980s | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent team=Theme at university=Eventuality | ||
| 3 | is a | past | origin | François | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | create | past | François | Ivorian rugby | who nsubj | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rugby=Result | |||
| 5 | is a | past | François's son | the national captain | during the 1990s | tree rules |
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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