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title: After al-Qaeda militants targeted beachgoers at Grand-Bassam in Marc… — Abidjan · tree and pragmatics
description: After al-Qaeda militants targeted beachgoers at Grand-Bassam in March 2016, the French government announced it would increase its troop deployment in Côte d'Ivoire from 500 to 900. Who acts: al, French government, government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Abidjan» with its dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Abidjan, sentence 169

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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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After al-Qaeda militants targeted beachgoers at Grand-Bassam in March 2016, the French government announced it would increase its troop deployment in Côte d'Ivoire from 500 to 900.

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**Who acts:** al, French government, government · **What happens:** target, announce, increase, deploy · **To what, where:** beachgoers, Grand Bassam, troop deployment · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (al, French government, government), 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:169
# text = After al-Qaeda militants targeted beachgoers at Grand-Bassam in March 2016, the French government announced it would increase its troop deployment in Côte d'Ivoire from 500 to 900.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Qaeda	Qaeda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	militants	militant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	targeted	target	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	beachgoers	beachgoer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	Grand	Grand	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Bassam	Bassam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	2016	2016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	announced	announce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	increase	increase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	deployment	deployment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	Côte	Côte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	d'Ivoire	d'Ivoire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	900	900	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **target** | past | al | beachgoers |  | Grand Bassam in March  2016 |  | militants *nsubj* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beachgoer=Theme |
| 2 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | the French government |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **increase** | would | government | government's troop deployment |  |  |  | from 500 to 900; in Côte d'Ivoire | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: agent=Patient deployment=Extent in d'ivoire=Attribute from 500=Initial\_State |
| 4 | **deploy** |  | government |  |  |  |  |  | nom deployment «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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