Benin, sentence 39
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.
In 1856, approximately 2,500 tons of palm oil was exported by British companies which was valued at £112,500.
Who acts: British companies · What happens: export, value · To what, where: 2,500 tons, 1856, British companies
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 (British companies), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1856 | case |
| 2 | 1856 | 1856 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 exported | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1856 | punct |
| 4 | approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 5 2,500 | advmod |
| 5 | 2,500 | 2500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 tons | nummod |
| 6 | tons | ton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 exported | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 oil | case |
| 8 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 oil | compound |
| 9 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tons | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 exported | aux:pass |
| 11 | exported | export | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 companies | case |
| 13 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 companies | amod |
| 14 | companies | company | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 exported | obl |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 valued | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 valued | aux:pass |
| 17 | valued | value | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 companies | acl:relcl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 £ | case |
| 19 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 17 valued | obl |
| 20 | 112,500 | 112,500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 £ | nummod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 exported | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | export | past · passive | British companies | 2,500 tons of palm oil | 1856 | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | value | past · passive | British companies | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme at £=Value |
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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