Bangui, sentence 24
From Wikipedia, «Bangui», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The colony of Ubangi-Shari received its autonomy in 1958 as the Central African Republic and became independent from France in 1960.
Who acts: colony · What happens: receive, become · To what, where: autonomy, 1958, 1960
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bangui». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (colony), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 colony | det |
| 2 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 received | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Ubangi | case |
| 4 | Ubangi | Ubangi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 colony | nmod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Shari | punct |
| 6 | Shari | Shari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ubangi | conj |
| 7 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 autonomy | nmod:poss |
| 9 | autonomy | autonomy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 received | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 1958 | case |
| 11 | 1958 | 1958 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 received | obl |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 Republic | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Republic | det |
| 14 | Central | Central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Republic | amod |
| 15 | African | African | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Republic | compound |
| 16 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 received | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 became | cc |
| 18 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 received | conj |
| 19 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 became | xcomp |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 France | case |
| 21 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 independent | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 1960 | case |
| 23 | 1960 | 1960 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 became | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | the colony of Ubangi and Shari | colony's autonomy | 1958 | as the Central African Republic | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent autonomy=Theme in 1958=Location | ||
| 2 | become | past | the colony of Ubangi and Shari not said here | in 1960 result; independent property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1960=Result |
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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