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# Benin, sentence 80

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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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Boni was reelected in 2011, taking 53.18% of the vote in the first round—enough to avoid a runoff election.

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**What happens:** reelect, take, avoid · **To what, where:** Boni, 2011, first round, runoff election

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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:80
# text = Boni was reelected in 2011, taking 53.18% of the vote in the first round—enough to avoid a runoff election.
1	Boni	Boni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	reelected	reelect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	2011	2011	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	53.18	53.18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
16	round	round	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	avoid	avoid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	runoff	runoff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reelect** | past · passive |  | Boni |  | 2011 |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | gerund |  |  |  | the first round |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent %=Value in round=Location |
| 3 | **avoid** | to-infinitive |  | a runoff election |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent election=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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