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title: The handover was conducted with minimal ceremony, involving only the… — Senegal · tree and pragmatics
description: The handover was conducted with minimal ceremony, involving only the signing of a report. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Senegal» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Senegal, sentence 78

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From Wikipedia, [«Senegal»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegal), 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 handover was conducted with minimal ceremony, involving only the signing of a report.

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**What happens:** conduct, involve, sign · **To what, where:** handover, signing, report

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Senegal». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:Senegal:78
# text = The handover was conducted with minimal ceremony, involving only the signing of a report.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	handover	handover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	minimal	minimal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	involving	involve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	signing	signing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conduct** | past · passive |  | the handover |  |  |  | with minimal ceremony | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **involve** | gerund |  | the signing of a report |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signing=Theme |
| 3 | **sign** |  |  | a report |  |  |  |  | nom signing «communication 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, «Senegal», 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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