Abidjan, sentence 70
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Abidjan was one of the main theaters of the 2010–2011 Ivorian crisis and the site of major demonstrations against incumbent president Gbagbo, including one on International Women's Day in 2011 that saw several demonstrators killed by Gbagbo's forces.
Who acts: Abidjan, major demonstrations · What happens: be, include, see, kill · To what, where: one, several demonstrators
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 (Abidjan, major demonstrations), 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 | Abidjan | Abidjan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 one | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 one | cop |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 theaters | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 theaters | det |
| 6 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 theaters | amod |
| 7 | theaters | theater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 one | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 crisis | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 crisis | det |
| 10 | 2010 | 2010 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 crisis | compound |
| 11 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 12 2011 | case |
| 12 | 2011 | 2011 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 2010 | nmod |
| 13 | Ivorian | ivorian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 crisis | amod |
| 14 | crisis | crisis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 theaters | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 site | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 site | det |
| 17 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 crisis | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 demonstrations | case |
| 19 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 demonstrations | amod |
| 20 | demonstrations | demonstration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 site | nmod |
| 21 | against | against | ADP | _ | 24 Gbagbo | case |
| 22 | incumbent | incumbent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 president | amod |
| 23 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Gbagbo | nmod:desc |
| 24 | Gbagbo | Gbagbo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 demonstrations | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Day | punct |
| 26 | including | include | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 Day | case |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 Day | nummod |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 Day | case |
| 29 | International | International | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Women | amod |
| 30 | Women | Women | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Day | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 Women | case |
| 32 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Gbagbo | appos |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 2011 | case |
| 34 | 2011 | 2011 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 Day | nmod |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 saw | nsubj |
| 36 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 demonstrations | acl:relcl |
| 37 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 demonstrators | amod |
| 38 | demonstrators | demonstrator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 saw | obj |
| 39 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 demonstrators | acl |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 43 forces | case |
| 41 | Gbagbo | Gbagbo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 forces | nmod:poss |
| 42 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 41 Gbagbo | case |
| 43 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 killed | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Abidjan | one | of the main theaters of the 2010 Ivorian crisis and the site of major demonstrations against Gbagbo incumbent president | tree rules | |||
| 2 | include | gerund | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | see | past | major demonstrations against Gbagbo incumbent president | several demonstrators | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer demonstrator=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | kill | participle | several demonstrators not said here | by Gbagbo's forces | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Abidjan», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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