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title: Hand-printed and hand-embroidered adinkra clothes were made and used… — Ghana · tree and pragmatics
description: Hand-printed and hand-embroidered adinkra clothes were made and used exclusively by royalty for devotional ceremonies. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ghana» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ghana, sentence 325

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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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Hand-printed and hand-embroidered adinkra clothes were made and used exclusively by royalty for devotional ceremonies.

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**What happens:** print, embroider, make, use · **To what, where:** embroidered adinkra clothes

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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: 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:325
# text = Hand-printed and hand-embroidered adinkra clothes were made and used exclusively by royalty for devotional ceremonies.
1	Hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	printed	print	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
5	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
8	adinkra	adinkra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
14	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	royalty	royalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	devotional	devotional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **print** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | Hand *compound* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **embroider** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | hand *compound* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | past · passive |  | embroidered adinkra clothes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **use** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by royalty for devotional ceremonies; exclusively *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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