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title: A plan for a sharp tax increase, while the people's resources were f… — Lomé · tree and pragmatics
description: A plan for a sharp tax increase, while the people's resources were falling, provoked the riots of January 1933, which were undoubtedly a major political break in the history of Togo. Who acts: resources, plan, riots, January. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lomé» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lomé, sentence 42

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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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A plan for a sharp tax increase, while the people's resources were falling, provoked the riots of January 1933, which were undoubtedly a major political break in the history of Togo.

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**Who acts:** resources, plan, riots, January · **What happens:** fall, provoke, be, riot · **To what, where:** riots, major political break, history

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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 (resources, plan, riots, January), 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:42
# text = A plan for a sharp tax increase, while the people's resources were falling, provoked the riots of January 1933, which were undoubtedly a major political break in the history of Togo.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	increase	increase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	resources	resource	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	provoked	provoke	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	riots	riot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	1933	1933	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
26	undoubtedly	undoubtedly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Togo	Togo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past · progressive | the people's resources |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **provoke** | past | a plan for a sharp tax increase | the riots of January  1933 |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus riot=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the riots of January  1933 | a major political break |  | the history of Togo |  | undoubtedly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **riot** |  | January  1933 |  |  |  |  |  | nom riot «act intransitive»: of=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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