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title: On 18 February 2023 the Comoros assumed the presidency of the Africa… — Comoros · tree and pragmatics
description: On 18 February 2023 the Comoros assumed the presidency of the African Union. Who acts: Comoros. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Comoros» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Comoros, sentence 120

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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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On 18 February 2023 the Comoros assumed the presidency of the African Union.

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**Who acts:** Comoros · **What happens:** assume · **To what, where:** presidency, 18

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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 (Comoros), 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:120
# text = On 18 February 2023 the Comoros assumed the presidency of the African Union.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
3	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Comoros	Comoros	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	assumed	assume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	presidency	presidency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	African	African	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assume** | past | the Comoros | the presidency of the African Union |  | 18  February |  |  | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presidency=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, «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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