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title: Togoland was thus created as an entity of international law within t… — Lomé · tree and pragmatics
description: Togoland was thus created as an entity of international law within the German colonial empire on 5 July 1884, by the Treaty of Togoville, signed by Gustav Nachtigal and King Mlapa III. Who acts: Treaty. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lomé» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lomé, sentence 17

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From Wikipedia, [«Lomé»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lomé), 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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Togoland was thus created as an entity of international law within the German colonial empire on 5 July 1884, by the Treaty of Togoville, signed by Gustav Nachtigal and King Mlapa III.

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**Who acts:** Treaty · **What happens:** create, sign · **To what, where:** Togoland, Treaty

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lomé». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Treaty), 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:Lomé:17
# text = Togoland was thus created as an entity of international law within the German colonial empire on 5 July 1884, by the Treaty of Togoville, signed by Gustav Nachtigal and King Mlapa III.
1	Togoland	Togoland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	created	create	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	entity	entity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	within	within	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	colonial	colonial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	_
18	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:unmarked	_	_
19	1884	1884	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Treaty	Treaty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Togoville	Togoville	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	signed	sign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Gustav	Gustav	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl:agent	_	_
30	Nachtigal	Nachtigal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
33	Mlapa	Mlapa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	_
34	III	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	29	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **create** | past · passive | the Treaty of Togoville | Togoland |  |  |  | as a entity of international law; within the German colonial empire on 5  July; thus *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Result as entity=Attribute |
| 2 | **sign** | participle |  | the Treaty of Togoville *not said here* |  |  |  | Gustav and King *obl:agent* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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, «Lomé», 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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