Benin, sentence 89
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.
On 20 February 2022, President Talon inaugurated an exhibition with 26 pieces of sacred art returned to Benin by France, 129 years after they were looted by colonial forces.
Who acts: President, colonial forces · What happens: inaugurate, return, loot · To what, where: exhibition, 20, sacred art, Benin, pieces
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 (President, colonial forces), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 20 | case |
| 2 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 inaugurated | obl |
| 3 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 2022 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 2022 | 2022 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 20 | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 20 | punct |
| 6 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 inaugurated | nsubj |
| 7 | Talon | Talon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 President | flat |
| 8 | inaugurated | inaugurate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 exhibition | det |
| 10 | exhibition | exhibition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 inaugurated | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 pieces | case |
| 12 | 26 | 26 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 pieces | nummod |
| 13 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 inaugurated | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 art | case |
| 15 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 art | amod |
| 16 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pieces | nmod |
| 17 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 art | acl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Benin | case |
| 19 | Benin | Benin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 returned | obl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 France | case |
| 21 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 returned | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 years | punct |
| 23 | 129 | 129 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 years | nummod |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pieces | conj |
| 25 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 28 looted | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 looted | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 looted | aux:pass |
| 28 | looted | loot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 inaugurated | advcl |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 forces | case |
| 30 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 forces | amod |
| 31 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 looted | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 inaugurated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inaugurate | past | President | a exhibition | 20 2022 February | with 26 pieces of sacred art and 129 years | tree rules | ||
| 2 | return | participle | sacred art not said here | Benin | by France | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to benin=Result | |||
| 3 | loot | past · passive | colonial forces | pieces = piece | tree rules |
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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