Lomé, sentence 19

From Wikipedia, «Lomé», 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.

It was this major economic role that led the German administration to transfer the capital of the territory to a city that already had more than 2,000 inhabitants.

Who acts: construction, major economic role, German administration · What happens: be, lead, transfer, have · To what, where: major economic role, German administration, capital, city

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lomé». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (construction, major economic role, German administration), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 role	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 role	cop
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 role	nsubj
4	major	major	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 role	amod
5	economic	economic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 role	amod
6	role	role	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 led	nsubj
8	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 role	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 administration	det
10	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 administration	amod
11	administration	administration	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 led	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 transfer	mark
13	transfer	transfer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 led	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 capital	det
15	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 transfer	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 territory	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 territory	det
18	territory	territory	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 capital	nmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 city	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 city	det
21	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 transfer	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 had	obj
23	already	already	ADV	_	24 had	advmod
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 city	acl:relcl
25	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	27 2,000	advmod
26	than	than	ADP	_	25 more	fixed
27	2,000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 inhabitants	nummod
28	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 had	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 role	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	construction	major economic role		this nsubj	tree rules
2	lead	past	major economic role	the German administration			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent administration=Patient clause=Result
3	transfer	to-infinitive	the German administration not said here	the capital of the territory	a city		vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent capital=Theme to city=Recipient
4	have	past		a city		2,000 inhabitants obj	tree rules

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Lomé, sentence 19