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title: In 1996, a massive reform of the administrative and political divisi… — Dakar · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1996, a massive reform of the administrative and political divisions of Senegal was voted by the Parliament of Senegal. Who acts: Parliament. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dakar» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dakar, sentence 104

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From Wikipedia, [«Dakar»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakar), 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 1996, a massive reform of the administrative and political divisions of Senegal was voted by the Parliament of Senegal.

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**Who acts:** Parliament · **What happens:** vote, reform · **To what, where:** massive reform, 1996, administrative divisions

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Dakar». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parliament), 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:Dakar:104
# text = In 1996, a massive reform of the administrative and political divisions of Senegal was voted by the Parliament of Senegal.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1996	1996	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	reform	reform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	divisions	division	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Senegal	Senegal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	voted	vote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Senegal	Senegal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vote** | past · passive | the Parliament of Senegal | a massive reform of the administrative divisions of Senegal |  | 1996 |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **reform** |  |  | the administrative divisions of Senegal |  |  |  |  | nom reform «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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, «Dakar», 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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