Benin, sentence 51
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 1958, France granted autonomy to the Republic of Dahomey, and full independence on 1 August 1960 which is celebrated each year as Independence Day, a national holiday.
Who acts: France · What happens: grant, celebrate · To what, where: autonomy, Republic, 1958, 1 August
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 (France), 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 1958 | case |
| 2 | 1958 | 1958 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 granted | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1958 | punct |
| 4 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 granted | nsubj |
| 5 | granted | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | autonomy | autonomy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 granted | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Republic | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Republic | det |
| 9 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 granted | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Dahomey | case |
| 11 | Dahomey | Dahomey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Republic | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 independence | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 independence | cc |
| 14 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 independence | amod |
| 15 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 granted | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 August | case |
| 17 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 August | nummod |
| 18 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 independence | nmod |
| 19 | 1960 | 1960 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 August | flat |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 22 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 August | acl:relcl |
| 23 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 year | det |
| 24 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 celebrated | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 Day | case |
| 26 | Independence | Independence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Day | compound |
| 27 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 celebrated | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 holiday | punct |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 holiday | det |
| 30 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 holiday | amod |
| 31 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Day | appos |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 granted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | past | France | autonomy | the Republic of Dahomey | 1958 | full independence on 1 August obl | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent autonomy=Theme to republic=Goal | |
| 2 | celebrate | present · passive | 1 August | as Independence Day; year | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as day=Attribute |
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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