Ivory Coast, sentence 53
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.
After the decline of Ghana, the Mali Empire grew into a powerful Muslim state, which reached its apogee in the early part of the 14th century.
Who acts: Mali Empire, powerful Muslim state, Ghana · What happens: grow, reach, decline · To what, where: powerful Muslim state, apogee, early part
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 (Mali Empire, powerful Muslim state, Ghana), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 decline | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 decline | det |
| 3 | decline | decline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grew | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Ghana | case |
| 5 | Ghana | Ghana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 decline | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 decline | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Empire | det |
| 8 | Mali | Mali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Empire | compound |
| 9 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 grew | nsubj |
| 10 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 state | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 state | det |
| 13 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 state | amod |
| 14 | Muslim | Muslim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 state | amod |
| 15 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grew | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 reached | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 reached | nsubj |
| 18 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 state | conj |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 apogee | nmod:poss |
| 20 | apogee | apogee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reached | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 part | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 part | det |
| 23 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 part | amod |
| 24 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reached | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 century | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 century | det |
| 27 | 14th | 14th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 28 century | amod |
| 28 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 part | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the Mali Empire | after the decline of Ghana | into a powerful Muslim state result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into state=Result | |||
| 2 | reach | past | a powerful Muslim state | Empire's apogee | the early part of the 14th century | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent apogee=Theme | |||
| 3 | decline | Ghana | nom decline «process intransitive»: of=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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