Ivory Coast, sentence 172
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.
He tightened his hold over political life, jailing several hundred opposition supporters.
Who acts: Bédié · What happens: tighten, jail, hold · To what, where: hold, political life, several hundred opposition supporters
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 (Bédié), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tightened | nsubj |
| 2 | tightened | tighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hold | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tightened | obj |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 life | case |
| 6 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 life | amod |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tightened | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 jailing | punct |
| 9 | jailing | jail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 tightened | advcl |
| 10 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 supporters | amod |
| 11 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 supporters | nummod |
| 12 | opposition | opposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 supporters | compound |
| 13 | supporters | supporter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 jailing | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tighten | past | Bédié | Bédié's hold | political life | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hold=Patient | |||
| 2 | jail | gerund | Bédié not said here | several hundred opposition supporters | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supporter=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hold | Bédié | nom hold «act transitive»: poss=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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