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title: According to the President Nana Akufo-Addo, Ghana was "the first Sub… — Ghana · tree and pragmatics
description: According to the President Nana Akufo-Addo, Ghana was "the first Sub-Saharan African country to achieve the goal of halving poverty, as contained in Goal 1 of the Millennium Development Goals". Who acts: goal. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ghana» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ghana, sentence 142

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From Wikipedia, [«Ghana»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana), 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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According to the President Nana Akufo-Addo, Ghana was "the first Sub-Saharan African country to achieve the goal of halving poverty, as contained in Goal 1 of the Millennium Development Goals".

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**Who acts:** goal · **What happens:** accord, be, achieve, halve, contain · **To what, where:** first Sub-Saharan African country, goal, poverty, 1

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ghana». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goal), 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:Ghana:142
# text = According to the President Nana Akufo-Addo, Ghana was "the first Sub-Saharan African country to achieve the goal of halving poverty, as contained in Goal 1 of the Millennium Development Goals".
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Nana	Nana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	Akufo	Akufo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Addo	Addo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	Ghana	Ghana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	amod	_	_
15	Sub-Saharan	Sub-Saharan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	achieve	achieve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	goal	goal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	halving	halve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
24	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	contained	contain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	Goal	Goal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:unmarked	_	_
30	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	Millennium	Millennium	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
34	Development	Development	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Goals	Goal	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past |  | the first Sub-Saharan African country |  |  |  | accord the Addo  Nana  President | tree rules |
| 3 | **achieve** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | the goal |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goal=Eventuality |
| 4 | **halve** *in a quote* | gerund | the goal *not said here* | poverty |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent poverty=Patient |
| 5 | **contain** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  | 1  Goal of the Millennium Development Goals |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in 1=Location |

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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, «Ghana», 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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