--- title: The preliminary results showed a loss for Gbagbo in favour of former… — Ivory Coast · tree and pragmatics description: The preliminary results showed a loss for Gbagbo in favour of former Prime Minister Ouattara. Who acts: preliminary results. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ivory Coast» with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Ivory_Coast/220/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Ivory Coast](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Ivory_Coast/) / 220 # Ivory Coast, sentence 220 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. The preliminary results showed a loss for Gbagbo in favour of former Prime Minister Ouattara. **Who acts:** preliminary results · **What happens:** show, favour · **To what, where:** loss, former Ouattara 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 (preliminary results), 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:220 # text = The preliminary results showed a loss for Gbagbo in favour of former Prime Minister Ouattara. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 preliminary preliminary NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 results result NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 loss loss NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Gbagbo Gbagbo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 favour favour NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 former former ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 13 Prime Prime PROPN NNP _ 14 compound _ _ 14 Minister Minister PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:desc _ _ 15 Ouattara Ouattara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | past | the preliminary results | a loss | | | | for Gbagbo; in favour of former Ouattara Prime Minister | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent loss=Patient in favour=Topic | | 2 | **favour** | | | former Ouattara Prime Minister | | | | | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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 219](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Ivory_Coast/219/) - next →: [sentence 221](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Ivory_Coast/221/) - ↑ back to [Ivory Coast](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Ivory_Coast/)