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title: During World War II, France's Vichy government completed constructio… — Abidjan · tree and pragmatics
description: During World War II, France's Vichy government completed construction of the Port in Abidjan to counter British influence. Who acts: Vichy government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Abidjan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Abidjan, sentence 51

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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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During World War II, France's Vichy government completed construction of the Port in Abidjan to counter British influence.

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**Who acts:** Vichy government · **What happens:** complete, counter, construct · **To what, where:** construction, British influence, Port

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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 (Vichy 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:51
# text = During World War II, France's Vichy government completed construction of the Port in Abidjan to counter British influence.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	Vichy	Vichy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	completed	complete	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Abidjan	Abidjan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	counter	counter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
19	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **complete** | past | Vichy government | construction of the Port in Abidjan |  |  | during World War |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent construction=Eventuality |
| 2 | **counter** | to-infinitive | Vichy government *not said here* | British influence |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent influence=Theme |
| 3 | **construct** |  |  | the Port in Abidjan |  |  |  |  | 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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