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title: On 5 September 2008, Mally resigned as prime minister of Togo. — Togo · tree and pragmatics
description: On 5 September 2008, Mally resigned as prime minister of Togo. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Togo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Togo, sentence 108

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From Wikipedia, [«Togo»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Togo), 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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On 5 September 2008, Mally resigned as prime minister of Togo.

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**What happens:** resign · **To what, where:** 5

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Togo». 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:Togo:108
# text = On 5 September 2008, Mally resigned as prime minister of Togo.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
3	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	2008	2008	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	Mally	mally	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	resigned	resign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	prime	prime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Togo	Togo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resign** | participle |  |  |  | 5  September  2008 |  | as prime minister of Togo; mally *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «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, «Togo», 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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