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title: July 2012 saw the resignation of the prime minister, Gilbert Houngbo. — Togo · tree and pragmatics
description: July 2012 saw the resignation of the prime minister, Gilbert Houngbo. Who acts: July. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Togo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Togo, sentence 114

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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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July 2012 saw the resignation of the prime minister, Gilbert Houngbo.

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**Who acts:** July · **What happens:** see, resign · **To what, where:** resignation, prime minister

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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: who acts (July), 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:114
# text = July 2012 saw the resignation of the prime minister, Gilbert Houngbo.
1	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	2012	2012	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	resignation	resignation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	prime	prime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Gilbert	Gilbert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
12	Houngbo	Houngbo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | July  2012 | the resignation of the prime minister |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer resignation=Stimulus |
| 2 | **resign** |  |  | the prime minister |  |  |  |  | nom resignation «feeling 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, «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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