Ghana, sentence 142
From Wikipedia, «Ghana», 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.
According to the President Nana Akufo-Addo, Ghana was "the first Sub-Saharan African country to achieve the goal of halving poverty, as contained in Goal 1 of the Millennium Development Goals".
Who acts: goal · What happens: accord, be, achieve, halve, contain · To what, where: first Sub-Saharan African country, goal, poverty, 1
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ghana». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goal), 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 Addo | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Addo | det |
| 4 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Nana | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Nana | Nana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Addo | nsubj |
| 6 | Akufo | Akufo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Nana | flat |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Addo | punct |
| 8 | Addo | Addo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 country | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Addo | punct |
| 10 | Ghana | Ghana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Addo | flat |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 country | cop |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 country | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 country | det |
| 14 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 country | amod |
| 15 | Sub-Saharan | Sub-Saharan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 country | compound |
| 16 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 country | amod |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 achieve | mark |
| 19 | achieve | achieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 country | acl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 goal | det |
| 21 | goal | goal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 achieve | obj |
| 22 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 23 halving | mark |
| 23 | halving | halve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 goal | acl |
| 24 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 halving | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 contained | punct |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 contained | mark |
| 27 | contained | contain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 country | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 1 | case |
| 29 | Goal | Goal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 1 | nmod:unmarked |
| 30 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 contained | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Goals | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Goals | det |
| 33 | Millennium | Millennium | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Goals | compound |
| 34 | Development | Development | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Goals | compound |
| 35 | Goals | Goal | PROPN | Number=Plur | 30 1 | nmod |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 Goals | punct |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 country | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | the first Sub-Saharan African country | accord the Addo Nana President | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | achieve in a quote | to-infinitive | the goal | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goal=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | halve in a quote | gerund | the goal not said here | poverty | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent poverty=Patient | ||||
| 5 | contain in a quote | participle | 1 Goal of the Millennium Development Goals | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in 1=Location |
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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