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title: In contrast, the economic outlook improved, at least superficially,… — Ivory Coast · tree and pragmatics
description: In contrast, the economic outlook improved, at least superficially, with decreasing inflation and an attempt to remove foreign debt. Who acts: economic outlook. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ivory Coast» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ivory Coast, sentence 173

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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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In contrast, the economic outlook improved, at least superficially, with decreasing inflation and an attempt to remove foreign debt.

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**Who acts:** economic outlook · **What happens:** improve, decrease, remove · **To what, where:** contrast, foreign debt

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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 (economic outlook), 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:173
# text = In contrast, the economic outlook improved, at least superficially, with decreasing inflation and an attempt to remove foreign debt.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	contrast	contrast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	outlook	outlook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	improved	improve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	obl	_	_
11	superficially	superficially	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	decreasing	decrease	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	inflation	inflation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	remove	remove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **improve** | participle | the economic outlook |  |  | contrast |  | decreasing inflation and a attempt *parataxis*; superficially *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **decrease** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **remove** | to-infinitive | the economic outlook *not said here* | foreign debt |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Theme |

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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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