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title: A founding member of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in 1963… — Ivory Coast · tree and pragmatics
description: A founding member of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in 1963 and then of the African Union in 2000, Ivory Coast defends respect for state sovereignty and peaceful cooperation between African countries. Who acts: founding member. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ivory Coast» with its dependency tre
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# Ivory Coast, sentence 268

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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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A founding member of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in 1963 and then of the African Union in 2000, Ivory Coast defends respect for state sovereignty and peaceful cooperation between African countries.

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**Who acts:** founding member · **What happens:** found, defend · **To what, where:** respect

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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 (founding member), 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:268
# text = A founding member of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in 1963 and then of the African Union in 2000, Ivory Coast defends respect for state sovereignty and peaceful cooperation between African countries.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	founding	found	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Organization	Organization	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Unity	Unity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	OAU	OAU	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1963	1963	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	African	African	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	Ivory	Ivory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Coast	Coast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	defends	defend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	sovereignty	sovereignty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	cooperation	cooperation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
34	between	between	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **found** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **defend** | present | a founding member of the Organization of African Unity in 1963 in 2000 and the African Union | respect |  |  |  | for state sovereignty and peaceful cooperation between African countries; Ivory Coast *nsubj* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respect=Beneficiary |

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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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