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title: The chief of Osu Alata, Nii Kobina Bonney III, had set up a boycott… — Accra · tree and pragmatics
description: The chief of Osu Alata, Nii Kobina Bonney III, had set up a boycott of European goods across the country due to the rise of prices for essential commodities. Who acts: prices. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Accra» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Accra, sentence 56

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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 chief of Osu Alata, Nii Kobina Bonney III, had set up a boycott of European goods across the country due to the rise of prices for essential commodities.

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**Who acts:** prices · **What happens:** set up, boycott, rise · **To what, where:** chief, country, European goods

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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 (prices), 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:56
# text = The chief of Osu Alata, Nii Kobina Bonney III, had set up a boycott of European goods across the country due to the rise of prices for essential commodities.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Osu	Osu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	Alata	Alata	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Nii	Nii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	Kobina	Kobina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	Bonney	Bonney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
10	III	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	boycott	boycott	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	16	nmod	_	_
20	across	across	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
23	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	26	case	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	essential	essential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	commodities	commodity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set up** | past · perfect · passive |  | the chief of Osu and Nii |  | the country |  | due the rise of prices for essential commodities; a boycott of European goods *obj* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme boycott=Destination |
| 2 | **boycott** |  |  | European goods |  |  |  |  | nom boycott «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **rise** |  | prices |  |  |  |  | for essential commodities | nom rise «event intransitive»: of=agent for=obl |

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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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