Benin, sentence 289
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 staple in northern Benin is yams, which has been served with sauces mentioned above.
Who acts: staple · What happens: be, serve, mention · To what, where: yams, sauces
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 (staple), 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 | 2 staple | det |
| 2 | staple | staple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yams | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Benin | case |
| 4 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Benin | amod |
| 5 | Benin | Benin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 staple | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 yams | cop |
| 7 | yams | yam | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 served | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 served | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 served | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 served | aux:pass |
| 12 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 yams | acl:relcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 sauces | case |
| 14 | sauces | sauce | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 served | obl |
| 15 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 sauces | acl |
| 16 | above | above | ADV | _ | 15 mentioned | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 yams | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a staple in northern Benin | yams | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | serve | present · perfect · passive | yams | with sauces | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with sauce=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mention speech: other | participle | sauces not said here | above property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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