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title: Kérékou attempted to reorganize education, pushing his own aphorisms… — Benin · tree and pragmatics
description: Kérékou attempted to reorganize education, pushing his own aphorisms such as "Poverty is not a fatality". Who acts: Kérékou, Poverty. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Benin» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Benin, sentence 64

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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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Kérékou attempted to reorganize education, pushing his own aphorisms such as "Poverty is not a fatality".

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**Who acts:** Kérékou, Poverty · **What happens:** attempt, reorganize, push, not be · **To what, where:** education, own aphorisms, fatality

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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 (Kérékou, Poverty), 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:64
# text = Kérékou attempted to reorganize education, pushing his own aphorisms such as "Poverty is not a fatality".
1	Kérékou	Kérékou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	attempted	attempt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	reorganize	reorganize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	education	education	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	pushing	push	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	aphorisms	aphorism	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Poverty	Poverty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fatality	fatality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attempt** | past | Kérékou |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **reorganize** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Kérékou *not said here* | education |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent education=Result |
| 3 | **push** | gerund | Kérékou *not said here* | Kérékou's own aphorisms |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aphorism=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | Poverty | a fatality |  |  |  |  | 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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