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title: In 1948, Ghana remained a colony of Great Britain following World Wa… — Accra · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1948, Ghana remained a colony of Great Britain following World War II. Who acts: Ghana, colony. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Accra» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Accra, sentence 55

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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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In 1948, Ghana remained a colony of Great Britain following World War II.

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**Who acts:** Ghana, colony · **What happens:** remain, follow · **To what, where:** colony, 1948, World War

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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 (Ghana, colony), 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:55
# text = In 1948, Ghana remained a colony of Great Britain following World War II.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1948	1948	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Ghana	Ghana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
10	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
12	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | Ghana | a colony of Great Britain |  | 1948 |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme colony=Attribute |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund | a colony of Great Britain *not said here* | World War |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Theme |

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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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