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title: By 1727, King Agaja of the Kingdom of Dahomey had conquered the coas… — Benin · tree and pragmatics
description: By 1727, King Agaja of the Kingdom of Dahomey had conquered the coastal cities of Allada and Whydah. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Benin» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Benin, sentence 23

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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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By 1727, King Agaja of the Kingdom of Dahomey had conquered the coastal cities of Allada and Whydah.

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**What happens:** conquer · **To what, where:** King Agaja

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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: 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:23
# text = By 1727, King Agaja of the Kingdom of Dahomey had conquered the coastal cities of Allada and Whydah.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1727	1727	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Agaja	Agaja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Dahomey	Dahomey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Allada	Allada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Whydah	Whydah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conquer** | past · perfect · passive |  | King Agaja of the Kingdom of Dahomey |  |  |  | by 1727; the coastal cities of Allada and Whydah *obj* | tree rules |

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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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