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title: Although the origins of Ivorian rugby go back to the 1960s and earli… — Abidjan · tree and pragmatics
description: Although the origins of Ivorian rugby go back to the 1960s and earlier, French official Jean-François Turon managed the team at Abidjan University in the 1980s, but it was François Dali who created Ivorian rugby, and his son was the national captain during the 1990s. Who acts: origins, French offici
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# Abidjan, sentence 510

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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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Although the origins of Ivorian rugby go back to the 1960s and earlier, French official Jean-François Turon managed the team at Abidjan University in the 1980s, but it was François Dali who created Ivorian rugby, and his son was the national captain during the 1990s.

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**Who acts:** origins, French official François Turon, origin, François, son · **What happens:** go back, manage, be, create · **To what, where:** team, Abidjan University, François, Ivorian rugby, national captain

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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 (origins, French official François Turon, origin, François), 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:510
# text = Although the origins of Ivorian rugby go back to the 1960s and earlier, French official Jean-François Turon managed the team at Abidjan University in the 1980s, but it was François Dali who created Ivorian rugby, and his son was the national captain during the 1990s.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	origins	origin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Ivorian	Ivorian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	rugby	rugby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	1960s	1960s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
15	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
16	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
17	Jean	Jean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	François	François	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Turon	Turon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	managed	manage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Abidjan	Abidjan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	1980s	1980s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	François	François	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
35	Dali	Dali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	_
36	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
37	created	create	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
38	Ivorian	Ivorian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	rugby	rugby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
48	during	during	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	1990s	1990s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | infinitive | the origins of Ivorian rugby |  |  |  |  | to the 1960s *result*; early *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to 1960s=Result |
| 2 | **manage** | past | French official François Turon | the team |  | Abidjan University |  | in the 1980s | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent team=Theme at university=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is a** | past | origin | François |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **create** | past | François | Ivorian rugby |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rugby=Result |
| 5 | **is a** | past | François's son | the national captain |  |  | during the 1990s |  | tree rules |

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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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