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title: In 1977, a coup d'état by France-Albert René ousted the first presid… — Seychelles · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1977, a coup d'état by France-Albert René ousted the first president of the republic, James Mancham. Who acts: coup d'état. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Seychelles» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Seychelles, sentence 36

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From Wikipedia, [«Seychelles»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seychelles), 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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In 1977, a coup d'état by France-Albert René ousted the first president of the republic, James Mancham.

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**Who acts:** coup d'état · **What happens:** oust · **To what, where:** first president, 1977

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Seychelles». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coup d'état), 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:Seychelles:36
# text = In 1977, a coup d'état by France-Albert René ousted the first president of the republic, James Mancham.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1977	1977	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	coup	coup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	d'état	d'état	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Albert	Albert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	René	René	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	ousted	oust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
15	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	republic	republic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	James	James	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
21	Mancham	Mancham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **oust** | past | a coup d'état by France | the first president of the republic |  | 1977 |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent president=Theme |

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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, «Seychelles», 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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