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title: In 1856, approximately 2,500 tons of palm oil was exported by Britis… — Benin · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1856, approximately 2,500 tons of palm oil was exported by British companies which was valued at £112,500. Who acts: British companies. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Benin» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Benin, sentence 39

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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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In 1856, approximately 2,500 tons of palm oil was exported by British companies which was valued at £112,500.

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**Who acts:** British companies · **What happens:** export, value · **To what, where:** 2,500 tons, 1856, British companies

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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 (British companies), 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:39
# text = In 1856, approximately 2,500 tons of palm oil was exported by British companies which was valued at £112,500.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1856	1856	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	2,500	2500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	tons	ton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	exported	export	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	valued	value	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	£	£	SYM	$	_	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	112,500	112,500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **export** | past · passive | British companies | 2,500 tons of palm oil |  | 1856 |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **value** | past · passive |  | British companies |  |  |  |  | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme at £=Value |

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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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