Benin, sentence 75
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 2001, an election resulted in Kérékou winning another term, after which his opponents claimed election irregularities.
Who acts: Kérékou, opponents · What happens: result, win, claim · To what, where: election, term, election irregularities, 2001
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 (Kérékou, opponents), 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 2001 | case |
| 2 | 2001 | 2001 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 election | punct |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 election | det |
| 5 | election | election | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 2001 | conj |
| 6 | resulted | result | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 election | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Kérékou | case |
| 8 | Kérékou | Kérékou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 resulted | obl:agent |
| 9 | winning | win | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 Kérékou | acl |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 term | det |
| 11 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 winning | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 claimed | punct |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 claimed | obl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 opponents | nmod:poss |
| 16 | opponents | opponent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 claimed | nsubj |
| 17 | claimed | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Kérékou | acl:relcl |
| 18 | election | election | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 irregularities | compound |
| 19 | irregularities | irregularity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 claimed | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 2001 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | result | participle | a election not said here | Kérékou obl:agent | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | win | gerund | Kérékou not said here | another term | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | claim speech: other | past | Kérékou's opponents | election irregularities | after Kérékou | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent irregularity=Topic |
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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