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title: In 2001, an election resulted in Kérékou winning another term, after… — Benin · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2001, an election resulted in Kérékou winning another term, after which his opponents claimed election irregularities. Who acts: Kérékou, opponents. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Benin» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Benin, sentence 75

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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 2001, an election resulted in Kérékou winning another term, after which his opponents claimed election irregularities.

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**Who acts:** Kérékou, opponents · **What happens:** result, win, claim · **To what, where:** election, term, election irregularities, 2001

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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, opponents), 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:75
# text = In 2001, an election resulted in Kérékou winning another term, after which his opponents claimed election irregularities.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2001	2001	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	resulted	result	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Kérékou	Kérékou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl:agent	_	_
9	winning	win	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	opponents	opponent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	claimed	claim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
18	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	irregularities	irregularity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	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 | **result** | participle |  | a election *not said here* |  |  |  | Kérékou *obl:agent* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **win** | gerund | Kérékou *not said here* | another term |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Eventuality |
| 3 | **claim** *speech: other* | past | Kérékou's opponents | election irregularities |  |  | after Kérékou |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent irregularity=Topic |

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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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