Benin, sentence 276
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.
Biennale Benin, continuing the projects of some organizations and artists, started in the country in 2010 as a collaborative event called "Regard Benin".
Who acts: Biennale · What happens: continue, start, call, project · To what, where: projects, country, collaborative event, organizations · 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 (Biennale), 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 | Biennale | Biennale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 started | nsubj |
| 2 | Benin | Benin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Biennale | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Biennale | punct |
| 4 | continuing | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Biennale | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 projects | det |
| 6 | projects | project | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 continuing | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 organizations | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 organizations | det |
| 9 | organizations | organization | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 projects | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 artists | cc |
| 11 | artists | artist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 organizations | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Biennale | punct |
| 13 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 country | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 country | det |
| 16 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 started | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 2010 | case |
| 18 | 2010 | 2010 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 started | obl |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 event | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 event | det |
| 21 | collaborative | collaborative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 event | amod |
| 22 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 started | obl |
| 23 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 event | acl |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Benin | punct |
| 25 | Regard | Regard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Benin | compound |
| 26 | Benin | Benin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 called | xcomp |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Benin | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | gerund | Biennale not said here | the projects of some organizations and artists | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent project=Theme | ||||
| 2 | start | past | Biennale | the country | in 2010; as a collaborative event | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | call | participle | a collaborative event not said here | Regard Benin xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | project | some organizations and artists | nom project «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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