N'Djamena, sentence 25
From Wikipedia, «N'Djamena», 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 city was divided into five electoral sections, each with a certain number of assigned seats on the thirty-three-seat municipal council based on population.
What happens: divide, assign, base · To what, where: city, five electoral sections, seat municipal council, population
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «N'Djamena». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 divided | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 divided | aux:pass |
| 4 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 sections | case |
| 6 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 sections | nummod |
| 7 | electoral | electoral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sections | amod |
| 8 | sections | section | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 divided | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 each | punct |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 sections | appos |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 number | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 number | det |
| 13 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 number | amod |
| 14 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 each | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 seats | case |
| 16 | assigned | assign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 seats | amod |
| 17 | seats | seat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 number | nmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 council | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 council | det |
| 20 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 three | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 thirty | punct |
| 22 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 seat | nummod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 three | punct |
| 24 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 council | compound |
| 25 | municipal | municipal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 council | amod |
| 26 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seats | nmod |
| 27 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 council | acl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 population | case |
| 29 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 based | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 divided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divide | past · passive | the city | five electoral sections | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | assign | participle | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | base | participle | the seat municipal council not said here | population | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on population=Source |
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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