Ivory Coast, sentence 77
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.
The first West African French settlement, Saint-Louis, was founded in the mid-17th century in Senegal, while at about the same time, the Dutch ceded to the French a settlement at Gorée Island, off Dakar.
Who acts: West, Dutch · What happens: settlement, found, cede · To what, where: first African French settlement, French settlement
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 (West, Dutch), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 settlement | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 settlement | amod |
| 3 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 settlement | nsubj |
| 4 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 settlement | amod |
| 5 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 settlement | amod |
| 6 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 founded | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Saint | punct |
| 8 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 settlement | appos |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Louis | punct |
| 10 | Louis | Louis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Saint | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 settlement | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 founded | aux:pass |
| 13 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 century | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 century | det |
| 16 | mid-17th | mid-17th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 17 century | amod |
| 17 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 founded | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Senegal | case |
| 19 | Senegal | Senegal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 century | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 ceded | punct |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 30 ceded | mark |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 time | case |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 26 time | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 time | det |
| 25 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 time | amod |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ceded | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 time | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Dutch | det |
| 29 | Dutch | Dutch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 ceded | nsubj |
| 30 | ceded | cede | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 founded | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 settlement | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 settlement | det |
| 33 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 settlement | amod |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 settlement | det |
| 35 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ceded | obl |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 Island | case |
| 37 | Gorée | Gorée | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Island | compound |
| 38 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 settlement | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Dakar | punct |
| 40 | off | off | ADP | _ | 41 Dakar | case |
| 41 | Dakar | Dakar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 ceded | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 founded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settlement | West | Saint appos | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | found | past · passive | the first African French settlement | century | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | cede | past | the Dutch | time | to the French settlement at Gorée Island goal; off Dakar | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to settlement=Goal |
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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