Ghana, sentence 32
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.
By the period leading to independence, the name "Ghana" was accepted and adopted as a symbol of precolonial prestige, cultural unity, and national legitimacy.
Who acts: period · What happens: lead, accept, adopt · To what, where: name
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 (period), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 period | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 period | det |
| 3 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 accepted | obl |
| 4 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 period | acl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 independence | case |
| 6 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leading | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 period | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 name | det |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 accepted | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Ghana | punct |
| 11 | Ghana | Ghana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 name | appos |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Ghana | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 accepted | aux:pass |
| 14 | accepted | accept | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 adopted | cc |
| 16 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 accepted | conj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 symbol | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 symbol | det |
| 19 | symbol | symbol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 adopted | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 prestige | case |
| 21 | precolonial | precolonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 prestige | amod |
| 22 | prestige | prestige | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 symbol | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 unity | punct |
| 24 | cultural | cultural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 unity | amod |
| 25 | unity | unity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 prestige | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 legitimacy | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 legitimacy | cc |
| 28 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 legitimacy | amod |
| 29 | legitimacy | legitimacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 accepted | parataxis |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | gerund | the period not said here | to independence | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to independence=Patient | ||||
| 2 | accept | past · passive | the period | the name | national legitimacy parataxis | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | adopt | participle | the period not said here | as a symbol of precolonial prestige and cultural unity | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as symbol=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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