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title: On 20 February 2022, President Talon inaugurated an exhibition with… — Benin · tree and pragmatics
description: On 20 February 2022, President Talon inaugurated an exhibition with 26 pieces of sacred art returned to Benin by France, 129 years after they were looted by colonial forces. Who acts: President, colonial forces. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Benin» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Benin, sentence 89

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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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On 20 February 2022, President Talon inaugurated an exhibition with 26 pieces of sacred art returned to Benin by France, 129 years after they were looted by colonial forces.

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**Who acts:** President, colonial forces · **What happens:** inaugurate, return, loot · **To what, where:** exhibition, 20, sacred art, Benin, pieces

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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 (President, colonial forces), 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:89
# text = On 20 February 2022, President Talon inaugurated an exhibition with 26 pieces of sacred art returned to Benin by France, 129 years after they were looted by colonial forces.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
3	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Talon	Talon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	inaugurated	inaugurate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	exhibition	exhibition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	26	26	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Benin	Benin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	129	129	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
25	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	looted	loot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inaugurate** | past | President | a exhibition |  | 20  2022  February |  | with 26 pieces of sacred art and 129 years | tree rules |
| 2 | **return** | participle |  | sacred art *not said here* | Benin |  |  | by France | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to benin=Result |
| 3 | **loot** | past · passive | colonial forces | pieces *= piece* |  |  |  |  | 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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