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title: In 1993, Eyadéma faced multiparty elections marred by irregularities… — Togo · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1993, Eyadéma faced multiparty elections marred by irregularities, and won the presidency three times. Who acts: Eyadéma. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Togo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Togo, sentence 13

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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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In 1993, Eyadéma faced multiparty elections marred by irregularities, and won the presidency three times.

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**Who acts:** Eyadéma · **What happens:** face, mar, win · **To what, where:** multiparty elections, presidency

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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 (Eyadéma), 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:13
# text = In 1993, Eyadéma faced multiparty elections marred by irregularities, and won the presidency three times.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1993	1993	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Eyadéma	Eyadéma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	faced	face	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	multiparty	multiparty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	marred	mar	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	irregularities	irregularity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	presidency	presidency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **face** | past | Eyadéma | multiparty elections |  |  |  | in 1993 | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent election=Destination in 1993=Theme |
| 2 | **mar** | participle |  | multiparty elections *not said here* |  |  |  | by irregularities | tree rules |
| 3 | **win** | past | Eyadéma *not said here* | the presidency |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presidency=Eventuality |

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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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