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title: The construction of the 15m-deep Vridi Canal in 1950 aided in this e… — Abidjan · tree and pragmatics
description: The construction of the 15m-deep Vridi Canal in 1950 aided in this endeavor by connecting the Ebrié Lagoon to the sea. Who acts: construction. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Abidjan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Abidjan, sentence 48

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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 construction of the 15m-deep Vridi Canal in 1950 aided in this endeavor by connecting the Ebrié Lagoon to the sea.

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**Who acts:** construction · **What happens:** aid, connect, construct · **To what, where:** endeavor, Ebrié Lagoon, 15m

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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 (construction), 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:48
# text = The construction of the 15m-deep Vridi Canal in 1950 aided in this endeavor by connecting the Ebrié Lagoon to the sea.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	15m	15m	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Vridi	Vridi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Canal	Canal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1950	1950	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
12	aided	aid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	endeavor	endeavor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	connecting	connect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Ebrié	Ebrié	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Lagoon	Lagoon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **aid** | past | the construction of the 15m |  |  | this endeavor |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **connect** | gerund | the construction of the 15m *not said here* | the Ebrié Lagoon |  |  |  | to the sea | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent lagoon=Patient to sea=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **construct** |  |  | the 15m |  |  |  |  | nom construction «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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