Chad, sentence 84
From Wikipedia, «Chad», 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.
The transitional council replaced the 2018 constitution with a charter, granting Mahamat Déby the powers of the presidency and naming him head of the armed forces.
Who acts: transitional council · What happens: replace, grant, name · To what, where: 2018 constitution, powers, Mahamat Déby, Déby
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Chad». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (transitional council), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 council | det |
| 2 | transitional | transitional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 council | amod |
| 3 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replaced | nsubj |
| 4 | replaced | replace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 constitution | det |
| 6 | 2018 | 2018 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 constitution | nummod |
| 7 | constitution | constitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replaced | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 charter | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 charter | det |
| 10 | charter | charter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replaced | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 granting | punct |
| 12 | granting | grant | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 replaced | advcl |
| 13 | Mahamat | Mahamat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Déby | compound |
| 14 | Déby | Déby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 granting | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 powers | det |
| 16 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 granting | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 presidency | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 presidency | det |
| 19 | presidency | presidency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 powers | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 naming | cc |
| 21 | naming | name | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 granting | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 naming | obj |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 naming | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 forces | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 forces | det |
| 26 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 forces | amod |
| 27 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 head | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 replaced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | replace | past | the transitional council | the 2018 constitution | with a charter | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme constitution=Location with charter=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | grant | gerund | the transitional council not said here | the powers of the presidency | Mahamat Déby | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent déby=Goal power=Theme | |||
| 3 | name | gerund | the transitional council not said here | Déby | head of the armed forces obj | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme head=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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