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title: He tightened his hold over political life, jailing several hundred o… — Ivory Coast · tree and pragmatics
description: He tightened his hold over political life, jailing several hundred opposition supporters. Who acts: Bédié. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ivory Coast» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ivory Coast, sentence 172

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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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He tightened his hold over political life, jailing several hundred opposition supporters.

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**Who acts:** Bédié · **What happens:** tighten, jail, hold · **To what, where:** hold, political life, several hundred opposition supporters

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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: who acts (Bédié), 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:172
# text = He tightened his hold over political life, jailing several hundred opposition supporters.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tightened	tighten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	jailing	jail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	opposition	opposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	supporters	supporter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tighten** | past | Bédié | Bédié's hold |  | political life |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hold=Patient |
| 2 | **jail** | gerund | Bédié *not said here* | several hundred opposition supporters |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supporter=Theme |
| 3 | **hold** |  | Bédié |  |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: poss=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, «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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