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title: The spelling Accra was given to Nkran by Europeans. — Accra · tree and pragmatics
description: The spelling Accra was given to Nkran by Europeans. Who acts: Europeans. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Accra» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Accra, sentence 20

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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 spelling Accra was given to Nkran by Europeans.

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**Who acts:** Europeans · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** spelling, Nkran

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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 (Europeans), 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:20
# text = The spelling Accra was given to Nkran by Europeans.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spelling	spelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	Accra	Accra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Nkran	Nkran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Europeans	European	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · passive | Europeans | the spelling | Nkran |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to nkran=Recipient |

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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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