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title: The Nana Otafrija Pallbearing Services, also known as the Dancing Pa… — Ghana · tree and pragmatics
description: The Nana Otafrija Pallbearing Services, also known as the Dancing Pallbearers, were featured in a BBC feature story in 2017, and footage from the story became part of an Internet meme in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Who acts: footage. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ghana» with its dependency tree 
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# Ghana, sentence 359

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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 Nana Otafrija Pallbearing Services, also known as the Dancing Pallbearers, were featured in a BBC feature story in 2017, and footage from the story became part of an Internet meme in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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**Who acts:** footage · **What happens:** know, feature, become · **To what, where:** Nana Otafrija, BBC feature story, part

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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 (footage), 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:359
# text = The Nana Otafrija Pallbearing Services, also known as the Dancing Pallbearers, were featured in a BBC feature story in 2017, and footage from the story became part of an Internet meme in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Nana	Nana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Otafrija	Otafrija	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	Pallbearing	Pallbearing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Services	Service	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Pallbearers	pallbearer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	featured	feature	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	BBC	BBC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	feature	feature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	footage	footage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
30	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	xcomp	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Internet	internet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	meme	meme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	wake	wake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
40	COVID	COVID	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	19	19	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	flat	_	_
43	pandemic	pandemic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | as the Dancing Pallbearers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as pallbearer=Attribute |
| 2 | **feature** | past · passive |  | the Nana Otafrija |  | a BBC feature story |  | in 2017 | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | past | footage from the story | part of a Internet meme in the wake of the COVID pandemic |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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, «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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