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title: The treaties provided for French sovereignty within the posts and fo… — Ivory Coast · tree and pragmatics
description: The treaties provided for French sovereignty within the posts and for trading privileges in exchange for fees or coutumes paid annually to the local chiefs for the use of the land. Who acts: treaties. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ivory Coast» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ivory Coast, sentence 88

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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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The treaties provided for French sovereignty within the posts and for trading privileges in exchange for fees or coutumes paid annually to the local chiefs for the use of the land.

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**Who acts:** treaties · **What happens:** provide, pay, use · **To what, where:** exchange, coutumes, land

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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 (treaties), 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:88
# text = The treaties provided for French sovereignty within the posts and for trading privileges in exchange for fees or coutumes paid annually to the local chiefs for the use of the land.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	treaties	treaty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	provided	provide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sovereignty	sovereignty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	within	within	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	posts	post	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	trading	trading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	privileges	privilege	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	fees	fee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	coutumes	coutume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	annually	annually	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:agent	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** | past | the treaties |  |  | exchange for fees or coutumes |  | for French sovereignty; within the posts and trading privileges | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for sovereignty=Recipient |
| 2 | **pay** | participle |  | coutumes *not said here* |  |  |  | for the use of the land; the local chiefs *obl:agent*; annually *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for use=Theme |
| 3 | **use** |  |  | the land |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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