Ghana, sentence 325
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.
Hand-printed and hand-embroidered adinkra clothes were made and used exclusively by royalty for devotional ceremonies.
What happens: print, embroider, make, use · To what, where: embroidered adinkra clothes
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: 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 | Hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 printed | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hand | punct |
| 3 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root | |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 embroidered | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 hand | punct |
| 7 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 clothes | amod |
| 8 | adinkra | adinkra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 clothes | compound |
| 9 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 11 made | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux:pass |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 printed | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 used | cc |
| 13 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 made | conj |
| 14 | exclusively | exclusively | ADV | _ | 13 used | advmod |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 royalty | case |
| 16 | royalty | royalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 used | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 ceremonies | case |
| 18 | devotional | devotional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ceremonies | amod |
| 19 | ceremonies | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 royalty | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 printed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | participle | Hand compound | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | embroider | participle | hand compound | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | past · passive | embroidered adinkra clothes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 4 | use | participle | by royalty for devotional ceremonies; exclusively property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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