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title: Runoffs were held on 28 November 2010, after being delayed one week… — Ivory Coast · tree and pragmatics
description: Runoffs were held on 28 November 2010, after being delayed one week from the original date of 21 November. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ivory Coast» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ivory Coast, sentence 257

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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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Runoffs were held on 28 November 2010, after being delayed one week from the original date of 21 November.

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**What happens:** hold, delay · **To what, where:** Runoffs, 28, original date

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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: 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:257
# text = Runoffs were held on 28 November 2010, after being delayed one week from the original date of 21 November.
1	Runoffs	runoff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	28	28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:unmarked	_	_
7	2010	2010	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	delayed	delay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nmod	_	_
20	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past · passive |  | Runoffs |  | 28  November  2010 |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme on 28=Location |
| 2 | **delay** | gerund · passive |  |  |  | the original date of 21  November | week |  | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S\_ING» |

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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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