Accra, sentence 56
From Wikipedia, «Accra», 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 chief of Osu Alata, Nii Kobina Bonney III, had set up a boycott of European goods across the country due to the rise of prices for essential commodities.
Who acts: prices · What happens: set up, boycott, rise · To what, where: chief, country, European goods
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Accra». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prices), 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 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Osu | case |
| 4 | Osu | Osu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 chief | nmod |
| 5 | Alata | Alata | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Osu | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Nii | punct |
| 7 | Nii | Nii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Osu | conj |
| 8 | Kobina | Kobina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Nii | flat |
| 9 | Bonney | Bonney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Nii | flat |
| 10 | III | III | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 9 Bonney | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 chief | punct |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 set | aux |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 set | compound:prt |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 boycott | det |
| 16 | boycott | boycott | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 goods | case |
| 18 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 goods | amod |
| 19 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 16 boycott | nmod |
| 20 | across | across | ADP | _ | 22 country | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 country | det |
| 22 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obl |
| 23 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 26 rise | case |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 due | fixed |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 rise | det |
| 26 | rise | rise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 prices | case |
| 28 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 rise | nmod |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 commodities | case |
| 30 | essential | essential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 commodities | amod |
| 31 | commodities | commodity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 rise | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set up | past · perfect · passive | the chief of Osu and Nii | the country | due the rise of prices for essential commodities; a boycott of European goods obj | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme boycott=Destination | |||
| 2 | boycott | European goods | nom boycott «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | rise | prices | for essential commodities | nom rise «event intransitive»: of=agent for=obl |
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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