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title: Despite the centralised role, each group retained its distinct ident… — Togo · tree and pragmatics
description: Despite the centralised role, each group retained its distinct identity and village territory within Akébou society. Who acts: group. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Togo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Togo, sentence 262

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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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Despite the centralised role, each group retained its distinct identity and village territory within Akébou society.

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**Who acts:** group · **What happens:** centralis, retain · **To what, where:** distinct identity

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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 (group), 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:262
# text = Despite the centralised role, each group retained its distinct identity and village territory within Akébou society.
1	Despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	centralised	centralis	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	retained	retain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	distinct	distinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	identity	identity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	within	within	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Akébou	Akébou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	society	society	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **centralis** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **retain** | past | each group | group's distinct identity and village territory |  |  |  | despite the centralised role; within Akébou society | tree rules |

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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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