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title: This decision was made because Accra had a drier climate relative to… — Accra · tree and pragmatics
description: This decision was made because Accra had a drier climate relative to Cape Coast. Who acts: Accra. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Accra» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Accra, sentence 41

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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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This decision was made because Accra had a drier climate relative to Cape Coast.

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**Who acts:** Accra · **What happens:** make, have · **To what, where:** decision, drier climate relative

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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 (Accra), 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:41
# text = This decision was made because Accra had a drier climate relative to Cape Coast.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	Accra	Accra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	drier	dry	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
10	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	relative	relative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Coast	Coast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive |  | this decision |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **have** | past | Accra | a drier climate relative |  |  |  | to Cape Coast | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relative=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, «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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