Benin, sentence 11
From Wikipedia, «Benin», 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.
A self-described Marxist–Leninist state called the People's Republic of Benin existed between 1975 and 1990.
Who acts: described Marxist · What happens: describe, call, exist · To what, where: Leninist state, 1975 · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Benin». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (described Marxist), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Marxist | det |
| 2 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 described | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 self | punct |
| 4 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Marxist | amod |
| 5 | Marxist | Marxist | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 existed | nsubj |
| 6 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 state | punct |
| 7 | Leninist | Leninist | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 state | compound |
| 8 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 existed | nsubj |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 state | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 People | det |
| 11 | People | People | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 Republic | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 People | case |
| 13 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Benin | case |
| 15 | Benin | Benin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Republic | nmod |
| 16 | existed | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | between | between | ADP | _ | 18 1975 | case |
| 18 | 1975 | 1975 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 existed | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 1990 | cc |
| 20 | 1990 | 1990 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 1975 | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 existed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | participle | self compound | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | call | participle | Leninist state not said here | the People's Republic of Benin xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | exist | past | a described Marxist | 1975 | Leninist state nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between 1975=Location |
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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