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title: The lodge initially served as a social club for European administrat… — Ghana · tree and pragmatics
description: The lodge initially served as a social club for European administrators, military officers, and merchants. Who acts: lodge. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ghana» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ghana, sentence 278

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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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The lodge initially served as a social club for European administrators, military officers, and merchants.

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**Who acts:** lodge · **What happens:** serve · **To what, where:** merchants

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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 (lodge), 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:278
# text = The lodge initially served as a social club for European administrators, military officers, and merchants.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	initially	initially	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	administrators	administrator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **serve** | past | the lodge | merchants |  |  |  | as a social club for European administrators and military officers; initially *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as club=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, «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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