--- title: Many felt the millions of dollars spent transforming his home villag… — Ivory Coast · tree and pragmatics description: Many felt the millions of dollars spent transforming his home village, Yamoussoukro, into the new political capital were wasted; others supported his vision to develop a centre for peace, education, and religion in the heart of the country. Who acts: Many, millions, others. 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Many felt the millions of dollars spent transforming his home village, Yamoussoukro, into the new political capital were wasted; others supported his vision to develop a centre for peace, education, and religion in the heart of the country. **Who acts:** Many, millions, others · **What happens:** feel, spend, transform, waste, support, develop · **To what, where:** home village, new political capital, vision, centre 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 (Many, millions, others), 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:163 # text = Many felt the millions of dollars spent transforming his home village, Yamoussoukro, into the new political capital were wasted; others supported his vision to develop a centre for peace, education, and religion in the heart of the country. 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 nsubj _ _ 2 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 dollars dollar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 spent spend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 8 transforming transform VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Yamoussoukro Yamoussoukro PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 into into SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 political political ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 wasted waste VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 23 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 supported support VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 vision vision NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 develop develop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 centre centre NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 education education NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 religion religion NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | past | Many | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **spend** | past | the millions of dollars | | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **transform** | gerund | the millions of dollars *not said here* | Houphouët's home village | | | | | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent village=Patient | | 4 | **waste** | past · passive | | the new political capital | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **support** | past | others | Houphouët's vision | | | | religion in the heart of the country *conj* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vision=Stimulus | | 6 | **develop** | to-infinitive | others *not said here* | a centre and education | | | | for peace | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent centre=Product for peace=Beneficiary | 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 162](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Ivory_Coast/162/) - next →: [sentence 164](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Ivory_Coast/164/) - ↑ back to [Ivory Coast](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Ivory_Coast/)