Lomé, sentence 42

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.

A plan for a sharp tax increase, while the people's resources were falling, provoked the riots of January 1933, which were undoubtedly a major political break in the history of Togo.

Who acts: resources, plan, riots, January · What happens: fall, provoke, be, riot · To what, where: riots, major political break, history

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 (resources, plan, riots, January), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 plan	det
2	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 provoked	nsubj
3	for	for	ADP	_	7 increase	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 increase	det
5	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 increase	amod
6	tax	tax	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 increase	compound
7	increase	increase	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plan	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 falling	punct
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 falling	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 people	det
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 resources	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 people	case
13	resources	resource	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 falling	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 falling	aux
15	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 increase	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 plan	punct
17	provoked	provoke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 riots	det
19	riots	riot	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 provoked	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 January	case
21	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 riots	nmod
22	1933	1933	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 January	nmod:unmarked
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 break	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 break	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 break	cop
26	undoubtedly	undoubtedly	ADV	_	30 break	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 break	det
28	major	major	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 break	amod
29	political	political	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 break	amod
30	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 riots	nmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 history	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 history	det
33	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 break	nmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 Togo	case
35	Togo	Togo	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 history	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 provoked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past · progressive	the people's resources				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	provoke	past	a plan for a sharp tax increase	the riots of January 1933			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus riot=Experiencer
3	is a	past	the riots of January 1933	a major political break	the history of Togo	undoubtedly property	tree rules
4	riot		January 1933				nom riot «act 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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Lomé», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Lomé, sentence 42