Dakar, sentence 180
From Wikipedia, «Dakar», 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 bus fleet was financed, acquired, and is operated by the private sector under a 15-year concession agreement established in 2021.
Who acts: private sector · What happens: finance, acquire, operate, establish · To what, where: bus fleet, year concession agreement, 2021
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Dakar». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (private sector), 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 fleet | det |
| 2 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fleet | compound |
| 3 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 financed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 financed | aux:pass |
| 5 | financed | finance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 acquired | punct |
| 7 | acquired | acquire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 financed | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 operated | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 operated | cc |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 operated | aux:pass |
| 11 | operated | operate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 financed | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 sector | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sector | det |
| 14 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sector | amod |
| 15 | sector | sector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 operated | obl |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 22 agreement | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 agreement | det |
| 18 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 year | nummod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 15 | punct |
| 20 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 agreement | compound |
| 21 | concession | concession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 agreement | compound |
| 22 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sector | nmod |
| 23 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 agreement | acl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 2021 | case |
| 25 | 2021 | 2021 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 established | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 financed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finance | past · passive | the bus fleet | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | acquire | participle | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 3 | operate | present · passive | the private sector under a year concession agreement | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | establish | participle | a year concession agreement not said here | 2021 | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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