Ivory Coast, sentence 129
From Wikipedia, «Ivory Coast», 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.
They were drafted for work in mines, on plantations, as porters, and on public projects as part of their tax responsibility.
What happens: draft · To what, where: natives, mines
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ivory Coast». 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drafted | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drafted | aux:pass |
| 3 | drafted | draft | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 work | case |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drafted | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 mines | case |
| 7 | mines | mine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drafted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 plantations | punct |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 plantations | case |
| 10 | plantations | plantation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drafted | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 porters | punct |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 porters | case |
| 13 | porters | porter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drafted | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 projects | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 projects | cc |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 projects | case |
| 17 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 projects | amod |
| 18 | projects | project | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drafted | obl |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 part | case |
| 20 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drafted | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 responsibility | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 responsibility | nmod:poss |
| 23 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 responsibility | compound |
| 24 | responsibility | responsibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 part | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drafted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draft | past · passive | natives = native | mines | for work; on public projects; as part of natives's tax responsibility; plantations conj; porters conj | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Result for work=Beneficiary |
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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