Ivory Coast, sentence 88
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 treaties provided for French sovereignty within the posts and for trading privileges in exchange for fees or coutumes paid annually to the local chiefs for the use of the land.
Who acts: treaties · What happens: provide, pay, use · To what, where: exchange, coutumes, land
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 (treaties), 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 | 2 treaties | det |
| 2 | treaties | treaty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 provided | nsubj |
| 3 | provided | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 sovereignty | case |
| 5 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sovereignty | amod |
| 6 | sovereignty | sovereignty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 provided | obl |
| 7 | within | within | ADP | _ | 9 posts | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 posts | det |
| 9 | posts | post | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 provided | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 privileges | cc |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 privileges | case |
| 12 | trading | trading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 privileges | compound |
| 13 | privileges | privilege | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 posts | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 exchange | case |
| 15 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 provided | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 fees | case |
| 17 | fees | fee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 exchange | nmod |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 coutumes | cc |
| 19 | coutumes | coutume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fees | conj |
| 20 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 coutumes | acl |
| 21 | annually | annually | ADV | _ | 20 paid | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 chiefs | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 chiefs | det |
| 24 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 chiefs | amod |
| 25 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 paid | obl:agent |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 use | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 use | det |
| 28 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 paid | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 land | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 land | det |
| 31 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 use | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 provided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | provide | past | the treaties | exchange for fees or coutumes | for French sovereignty; within the posts and trading privileges | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for sovereignty=Recipient | |||
| 2 | pay | participle | coutumes not said here | for the use of the land; the local chiefs obl:agent; annually property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for use=Theme | ||||
| 3 | use | the land | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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