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title: A self-described Marxist–Leninist state called the People's Republic… — Benin · tree and pragmatics
description: A self-described Marxist–Leninist state called the People's Republic of Benin existed between 1975 and 1990. Who acts: described Marxist. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Benin» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Benin, sentence 11

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From Wikipedia, [«Benin»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benin), 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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A self-described Marxist–Leninist state called the People's Republic of Benin existed between 1975 and 1990.

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**Who acts:** described Marxist · **What happens:** describe, call, exist · **To what, where:** Leninist state, 1975 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Benin». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (described Marxist), 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:Benin:11
# text = A self-described Marxist–Leninist state called the People's Republic of Benin existed between 1975 and 1990.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	Marxist	Marxist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	–	-	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Leninist	Leninist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	People	People	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Benin	Benin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	existed	exist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	between	between	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1975	1975	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	1990	1990	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | self *compound* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | Leninist state *not said here* |  |  |  | the People's Republic of Benin *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **exist** | past | a described Marxist |  |  | 1975 |  | Leninist state *nsubj* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between 1975=Location |

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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, «Benin», 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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