Ivory Coast, sentence 163
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.
Many felt the millions of dollars spent transforming his home village, Yamoussoukro, into the new political capital were wasted; others supported his vision to develop a centre for peace, education, and religion in the heart of the country.
Who acts: Many, millions, others · What happens: feel, spend, transform, waste, support, develop · To what, where: home village, new political capital, vision, centre
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: who acts (Many, millions, others), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 millions | det |
| 4 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spent | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 dollars | case |
| 6 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 millions | nmod |
| 7 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | ccomp |
| 8 | transforming | transform | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 spent | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 village | nmod:poss |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 village | compound |
| 11 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 transforming | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Yamoussoukro | punct |
| 13 | Yamoussoukro | Yamoussoukro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 village | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wasted | punct |
| 15 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 21 wasted | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 capital | det |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 capital | amod |
| 18 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 capital | amod |
| 19 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wasted | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 wasted | aux:pass |
| 21 | wasted | waste | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 spent | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 supported | punct |
| 23 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 supported | nsubj |
| 24 | supported | support | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | parataxis |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 vision | nmod:poss |
| 26 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 supported | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 develop | mark |
| 28 | develop | develop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 supported | advcl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 centre | det |
| 30 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 develop | obj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 peace | case |
| 32 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 centre | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 education | punct |
| 34 | education | education | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 centre | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 religion | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 religion | cc |
| 37 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 supported | conj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 heart | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 heart | det |
| 40 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 religion | nmod |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 country | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 country | det |
| 43 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 heart | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Many | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | spend | past | the millions of dollars | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | transform | gerund | the millions of dollars not said here | Houphouët's home village | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent village=Patient | ||||
| 4 | waste | past · passive | the new political capital | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | support | past | others | Houphouët's vision | religion in the heart of the country conj | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vision=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | develop | to-infinitive | others not said here | a centre and education | for peace | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent centre=Product for peace=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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