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title: It is a container transshipment port and was opened in 1951 in the p… — Abidjan · tree and pragmatics
description: It is a container transshipment port and was opened in 1951 in the presence of the Minister of Overseas and Colonies at the time, François Mitterrand. Who acts: sub-region. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Abidjan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Abidjan, sentence 336

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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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It is a container transshipment port and was opened in 1951 in the presence of the Minister of Overseas and Colonies at the time, François Mitterrand.

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**Who acts:** sub-region · **What happens:** be, open · **To what, where:** transshipment port, 1951

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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 (sub-region), 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:336
# text = It is a container transshipment port and was opened in 1951 in the presence of the Minister of Overseas and Colonies at the time, François Mitterrand.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	container	container	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	transshipment	transshipment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1951	1951	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Overseas	Overseas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Colonies	colony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	François	François	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
27	Mitterrand	Mitterrand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | sub-region | a transshipment port and François |  |  |  | François *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **open** | past · passive | sub-region *not said here* |  |  | 1951 | time | in the presence of the Minister of Overseas and Colonies | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: in 1951=Location |

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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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