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title: The transitional council replaced the 2018 constitution with a chart… — Chad · tree and pragmatics
description: The transitional council replaced the 2018 constitution with a charter, granting Mahamat Déby the powers of the presidency and naming him head of the armed forces. Who acts: transitional council. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Chad» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Chad, sentence 84

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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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The transitional council replaced the 2018 constitution with a charter, granting Mahamat Déby the powers of the presidency and naming him head of the armed forces.

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**Who acts:** transitional council · **What happens:** replace, grant, name · **To what, where:** 2018 constitution, powers, Mahamat Déby, Déby

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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 (transitional council), 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:84
# text = The transitional council replaced the 2018 constitution with a charter, granting Mahamat Déby the powers of the presidency and naming him head of the armed forces.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	transitional	transitional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	replaced	replace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	2018	2018	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	charter	charter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	granting	grant	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
13	Mahamat	Mahamat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Déby	Déby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	presidency	presidency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	naming	name	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **replace** | past | the transitional council | the 2018 constitution |  |  |  | with a charter | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme constitution=Location with charter=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **grant** | gerund | the transitional council *not said here* | the powers of the presidency | Mahamat Déby |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent déby=Goal power=Theme |
| 3 | **name** | gerund | the transitional council *not said here* | Déby |  |  |  | head of the armed forces *obj* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme head=Attribute |

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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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