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title: Under the presidency of Laurent Gbagbo (2000–11), efforts were made… — Abidjan · tree and pragmatics
description: Under the presidency of Laurent Gbagbo (2000–11), efforts were made to give effect to the project of making the political capital Yamoussoukro in Côte d'Ivoire. Who acts: efforts, project. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Abidjan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Abidjan, sentence 160

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From Wikipedia, [«Abidjan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abidjan), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Under the presidency of Laurent Gbagbo (2000–11), efforts were made to give effect to the project of making the political capital Yamoussoukro in Côte d'Ivoire.

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**Who acts:** efforts, project · **What happens:** make, give · **To what, where:** efforts, presidency, effect, project, political capital

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Abidjan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (efforts, project), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Abidjan:160
# text = Under the presidency of Laurent Gbagbo (2000–11), efforts were made to give effect to the project of making the political capital Yamoussoukro in Côte d'Ivoire.
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	presidency	presidency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Laurent	Laurent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	Gbagbo	Gbagbo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	10	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	project	project	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	Yamoussoukro	Yamoussoukro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	Côte	Côte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	d'Ivoire	d'Ivoire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive |  | efforts |  | the presidency of Laurent  2000 – 11 |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive | efforts *not said here* | effect | the project |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent effect=Theme to project=Recipient |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | the project *not said here* | the political capital |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset capital=Product |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Abidjan», 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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