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title: According to oral accounts, the ancestor Ida founded Agbogboli, a fo… — Togo · tree and pragmatics
description: According to oral accounts, the ancestor Ida founded Agbogboli, a fortified hilltop site between the Logbo and Haito mountains. Who acts: ancestor. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Togo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Togo, sentence 275

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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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According to oral accounts, the ancestor Ida founded Agbogboli, a fortified hilltop site between the Logbo and Haito mountains.

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**Who acts:** ancestor · **What happens:** accord, found, fortify · **To what, where:** Agbogboli

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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 (ancestor), 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:275
# text = According to oral accounts, the ancestor Ida founded Agbogboli, a fortified hilltop site between the Logbo and Haito mountains.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	oral	oral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	accounts	account	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ancestor	ancestor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Ida	Ida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	founded	found	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Agbogboli	Agbogboli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	fortified	fortify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
14	hilltop	hilltop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
16	between	between	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	Logbo	Logbo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Haito	Haito	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **found** | past | the ancestor | Agbogboli |  |  |  | accord oral accounts | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent agbogboli=Patient |
| 3 | **fortify** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=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, «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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