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title: In 2000, major direct foreign investment in the oil sector began, bo… — Chad · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2000, major direct foreign investment in the oil sector began, boosting economic prospects. Who acts: major direct foreign investment. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Chad» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Chad, sentence 264

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From Wikipedia, [«Chad»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad), 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 2000, major direct foreign investment in the oil sector began, boosting economic prospects.

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**Who acts:** major direct foreign investment · **What happens:** begin, boost · **To what, where:** 2000, economic prospects

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Chad». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (major direct foreign investment), 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:Chad:264
# text = In 2000, major direct foreign investment in the oil sector began, boosting economic prospects.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	direct	direct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	investment	investment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	sector	sector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	boosting	boost	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
15	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	prospects	prospect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | major direct foreign investment in the oil sector |  |  | 2000 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **boost** | gerund | major direct foreign investment in the oil sector *not said here* | economic prospects |  |  |  |  | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prospect=Theme |

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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, «Chad», 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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