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title: They were drafted for work in mines, on plantations, as porters, and… — Ivory Coast · tree and pragmatics
description: They were drafted for work in mines, on plantations, as porters, and on public projects as part of their tax responsibility. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ivory Coast» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ivory Coast, sentence 129

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From Wikipedia, [«Ivory Coast»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivory_Coast), 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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They were drafted for work in mines, on plantations, as porters, and on public projects as part of their tax responsibility.

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**What happens:** draft · **To what, where:** natives, mines

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ivory Coast». 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:Ivory_Coast:129
# text = They were drafted for work in mines, on plantations, as porters, and on public projects as part of their tax responsibility.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	drafted	draft	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	mines	mine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	plantations	plantation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	porters	porter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	projects	project	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	responsibility	responsibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draft** | past · passive |  | natives *= native* |  | mines |  | for work; on public projects; as part of natives's tax responsibility; plantations *conj*; porters *conj* | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Result for work=Beneficiary |

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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, «Ivory Coast», 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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