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title: The district of Cocody is also home to many single-storey wooden vil… — Abidjan · tree and pragmatics
description: The district of Cocody is also home to many single-storey wooden villas, surrounded by vast gardens of lush vegetation, fed by the heavy rains that water the city. Who acts: district, many storey wooden villas. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Abidjan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Abidjan, sentence 249

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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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The district of Cocody is also home to many single-storey wooden villas, surrounded by vast gardens of lush vegetation, fed by the heavy rains that water the city.

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**Who acts:** district, many storey wooden villas · **What happens:** be, surround, feed · **To what, where:** many storey wooden villas, city

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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 (district, many storey wooden villas), 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:249
# text = The district of Cocody is also home to many single-storey wooden villas, surrounded by vast gardens of lush vegetation, fed by the heavy rains that water the city.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	district	district	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Cocody	Cocody	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	home	home	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
10	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	storey	storey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	villas	villa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:agent	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	lush	lush	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	vegetation	vegetation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	rains	rain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	det	_	_
30	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the district of Cocody |  |  |  |  | to many storey wooden villas; home *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **surround** | participle |  | many storey wooden villas *not said here* |  |  |  | vast gardens of lush vegetation *obl:agent* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **feed** | participle | many storey wooden villas *not said here* | the city |  |  |  | by the heavy rains  that water | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=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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