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title: The name Ga is a cognate of the name Akan, one of the words in which… — Accra · tree and pragmatics
description: The name Ga is a cognate of the name Akan, one of the words in which [g] corresponds to [k] in Akan. Who acts: name, g. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Accra» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Accra, sentence 18

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From Wikipedia, [«Accra»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accra), 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 name Ga is a cognate of the name Akan, one of the words in which \[g\] corresponds to \[k\] in Akan.

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**Who acts:** name, g · **What happens:** be, correspond · **To what, where:** cognate, words

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Accra». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, g), 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:Accra:18
# text = The name Ga is a cognate of the name Akan, one of the words in which [g] corresponds to [k] in Akan.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	Ga	Ga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cognate	cognate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	Akan	Akan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
18	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	g	G	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
21	corresponds	correspond	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	k	k	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Akan	Akan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	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 | the name | a cognate |  |  |  | of the name; one of the words *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **correspond** | present | g |  |  | the words |  | to k; in Akan | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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, «Accra», 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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