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title: Investigative reporters often face threats and arrests. — Ivory Coast · tree and pragmatics
description: Investigative reporters often face threats and arrests. Who acts: Investigative reporters. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ivory Coast» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ivory Coast, sentence 413

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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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Investigative reporters often face threats and arrests.

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**Who acts:** Investigative reporters · **What happens:** face · **To what, where:** threats

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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 (Investigative reporters), 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:413
# text = Investigative reporters often face threats and arrests.
1	Investigative	investigative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	reporters	reporter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	face	face	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	threats	threat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	arrests	arrest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **face** | present | Investigative reporters | threats and arrests |  |  |  | often *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent threat=Destination |

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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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