Bangui, sentence 54
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.
Bozizé refused to accept an arrest warrant and "defected with about a hundred troops, engaged in street battles in the northern neighborhoods of Bangui (traditionally supporting Patassé)" and went north.
Who acts: Bozizé · What happens: refuse, not accept, defect, engage, support, go · To what, where: arrest warrant, street battles, Patassé
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 (Bozizé), 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 | Bozizé | Bozizé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 refused | nsubj |
| 2 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 accept | mark |
| 4 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 refused | xcomp |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 warrant | det |
| 6 | arrest | arrest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 warrant | compound |
| 7 | warrant | warrant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 accept | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 defected | cc |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 defected | punct |
| 10 | defected | defect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 warrant | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 troops | case |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 hundred | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hundred | det |
| 14 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 troops | nummod |
| 15 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 10 defected | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 engaged | punct |
| 17 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 warrant | acl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 battles | case |
| 19 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 battles | compound |
| 20 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 engaged | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 neighborhoods | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 neighborhoods | det |
| 23 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 neighborhoods | amod |
| 24 | neighborhoods | neighborhood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 engaged | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Bangui | case |
| 26 | Bangui | Bangui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 neighborhoods | nmod |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 supporting | punct |
| 28 | traditionally | traditionally | ADV | _ | 29 supporting | advmod |
| 29 | supporting | support | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 accept | advcl |
| 30 | Patassé | Patassé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 supporting | obj |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 Patassé | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 supporting | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 went | cc |
| 34 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 refused | conj |
| 35 | north | north | ADV | _ | 34 went | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | Bozizé | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not accept | to-infinitive | Bozizé not said here | a arrest warrant | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrant=Theme | ||||
| 3 | defect in a quote | participle | Bozizé not said here | with hundred troops | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | engage in a quote | participle | a arrest warrant not said here | in street battles goal; in the northern neighborhoods of Bangui | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in battle=Goal | ||||
| 5 | support in a quote | gerund | Bozizé not said here | Patassé | traditionally property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer patassé=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | go | past | Bozizé not said here | north property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Bangui», 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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