Ivory Coast, sentence 353
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.
Ivory Coast, Nigeria, and Kenya were exceptions as their rulers were themselves large cash-crop producers, and the newly independent countries desisted from imposing penal rates of taxation on exported agriculture.
Who acts: Ivory Coast, independent countries · What happens: be, desist, export · To what, where: exceptions, imposing penal rates
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 (Ivory Coast, independent countries), 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 | Ivory | ivory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Coast | amod |
| 2 | Coast | Coast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 exceptions | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Nigeria | punct |
| 4 | Nigeria | Nigeria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Coast | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Kenya | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Kenya | cc |
| 7 | Kenya | Kenya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Nigeria | conj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 exceptions | cop |
| 9 | exceptions | exception | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 rulers | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 rulers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | rulers | ruler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 exceptions | nmod |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 exceptions | acl:relcl |
| 14 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 were | obj |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 producers | amod |
| 16 | cash | cash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 crop | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 cash | punct |
| 18 | crop | crop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 producers | compound |
| 19 | producers | producer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 were | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 desisted | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 desisted | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 countries | det |
| 23 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 24 independent | advmod |
| 24 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 countries | amod |
| 25 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 desisted | nsubj |
| 26 | desisted | desist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 producers | conj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 rates | case |
| 28 | imposing | imposing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 rates | amod |
| 29 | penal | penal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 rates | amod |
| 30 | rates | rate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 desisted | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 taxation | case |
| 32 | taxation | taxation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 rates | nmod |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 agriculture | case |
| 34 | exported | export | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 agriculture | amod |
| 35 | agriculture | agriculture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 taxation | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 exceptions | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Ivory Coast and Nigeria and Kenya | exceptions | as exceptions's rulers | tree rules | |||
| 2 | desist | participle | the independent countries | imposing penal rates of taxation on exported agriculture | vn refrain-69 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent from rate=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | export | participle | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: 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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