--- title: A turning point in relations with France was reached with the 1956 O… — Ivory Coast · tree and pragmatics description: A turning point in relations with France was reached with the 1956 Overseas Reform Act (Loi Cadre), which transferred several powers from Paris to elected territorial governments in French West Africa and also removed the remaining voting inequities. Who acts: 1956 Overseas Reform Act. 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A turning point in relations with France was reached with the 1956 Overseas Reform Act (Loi Cadre), which transferred several powers from Paris to elected territorial governments in French West Africa and also removed the remaining voting inequities. **Who acts:** 1956 Overseas Reform Act · **What happens:** reach, transfer, elect, remove, remain · **To what, where:** turning point, several powers, Paris, remaining voting inequities 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: who acts (1956 Overseas Reform Act), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:148 # text = A turning point in relations with France was reached with the 1956 Overseas Reform Act (Loi Cadre), which transferred several powers from Paris to elected territorial governments in French West Africa and also removed the remaining voting inequities. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 turning turning NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 relations relation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 reached reach VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 12 1956 1956 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 compound _ _ 13 Overseas Overseas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 14 Reform Reform PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 Act Act PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Loi Loi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 18 Cadre Cadre PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 transferred transfer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 23 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 powers power NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Paris Paris PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 elected elect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 amod _ _ 29 territorial territorial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 governments government NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 French French PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 33 West West PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 also also ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 removed remove VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 remaining remain VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 41 amod _ _ 40 voting voting NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 inequities inequity NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reach** | past · passive | | a turning point in relations with France | | | | with the 1956 Overseas Reform Act | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **transfer** | past | the 1956 Overseas Reform Act | several powers | | Paris | | to elected territorial governments in French West Africa | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent power=Theme to government=Destination from paris=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **elect** | participle | | | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **remove** | past | the 1956 Overseas Reform Act *not said here* | the remaining voting inequities | | | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inequity=Theme | | 5 | **remain** | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Ivory_Coast/147/) - next →: [sentence 149](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Ivory_Coast/149/) - ↑ back to [Ivory Coast](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Ivory_Coast/)