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title: The elections in 2006 were won by Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, a Su… — Comoros · tree and pragmatics
description: The elections in 2006 were won by Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, a Sunni Muslim cleric nicknamed the "Ayatollah" for his time spent studying Islam in Iran. Who acts: Ahmed Abdallah, Sunni Muslim cleric, time. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Comoros» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Comoros, sentence 100

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From Wikipedia, [«Comoros»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comoros), 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 elections in 2006 were won by Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, a Sunni Muslim cleric nicknamed the "Ayatollah" for his time spent studying Islam in Iran.

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**Who acts:** Ahmed Abdallah, Sunni Muslim cleric, time · **What happens:** win, nickname, spend, study · **To what, where:** elections, Ayatollah, Islam, Iran

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Comoros». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ahmed Abdallah, Sunni Muslim cleric, time), 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:Comoros:100
# text = The elections in 2006 were won by Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, a Sunni Muslim cleric nicknamed the "Ayatollah" for his time spent studying Islam in Iran.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	2006	2006	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Abdallah	Abdallah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl:agent	_	_
10	Mohamed	Mohamed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	Sambi	Sambi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	Sunni	Sunni	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	Muslim	Muslim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	cleric	cleric	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	nicknamed	nickname	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Ayatollah	Ayatollah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
26	studying	study	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
27	Islam	Islam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Iran	Iran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past · passive | Ahmed Abdallah | the elections in 2006 |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **nickname** | past | a Sunni Muslim cleric | the Ayatollah |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent ayatollah=Result |
| 3 | **spend** | past | election's time |  |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **study** | gerund | election's time *not said here* | Islam |  | Iran |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent islam=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, «Comoros», 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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