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title: These are Zoblazo, Mapouka, Zouglou and, since 2002, the Coupé-Décal… — Abidjan · tree and pragmatics
description: These are Zoblazo, Mapouka, Zouglou and, since 2002, the Coupé-Décalé; the popularity and great variety of these dances make the city a kind of African dance and musical trend capital. Who acts: Zoblazo. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Abidjan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Abidjan, sentence 415

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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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These are Zoblazo, Mapouka, Zouglou and, since 2002, the Coupé-Décalé; the popularity and great variety of these dances make the city a kind of African dance and musical trend capital.

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**Who acts:** Zoblazo · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** Zoblazo, 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 (Zoblazo), 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:415
# text = These are Zoblazo, Mapouka, Zouglou and, since 2002, the Coupé-Décalé; the popularity and great variety of these dances make the city a kind of African dance and musical trend capital.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	Zoblazo	Zoblazo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Mapouka	Mapouka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Zouglou	Zouglou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	since	since	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	2002	2002	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	Coupé	Coupé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Décalé	Décalé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	popularity	popularity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	variety	variety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	dances	dance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	xcomp	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	musical	musical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	trend	trend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | this Zoblazo and the Coupé Décalé |  |  | since 2002 | Mapouka and Zouglou *appos*; the Coupé Décalé *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | this Zoblazo and the Coupé Décalé | the city |  |  |  | a kind of African dance and musical trend capital *xcomp* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=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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