Bangui, sentence 38
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.
Although he attempted to combat corruption and control the national economy, he was unable to achieve his reforms.
Who acts: country · What happens: attempt, combat, control, be, achieve, reform · To what, where: corruption, national economy, reforms
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 (country), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 3 attempted | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 attempted | nsubj |
| 3 | attempted | attempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 unable | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 combat | mark |
| 5 | combat | combat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 attempted | xcomp |
| 6 | corruption | corruption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 combat | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 control | cc |
| 8 | control | control | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 combat | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 economy | det |
| 10 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 economy | amod |
| 11 | economy | economy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 control | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 attempted | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 unable | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 unable | cop |
| 15 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 achieve | mark |
| 17 | achieve | achieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 unable | xcomp |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 reforms | nmod:poss |
| 19 | reforms | reform | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 achieve | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 unable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attempt | past | country | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | combat not said to happen | to-infinitive | country not said here | corruption | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corruption=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | control | infinitive | country not said here | the national economy | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent economy=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | country | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | achieve | to-infinitive | country not said here | country's reforms | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reform=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | reform | country | nom reform «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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