N'Djamena, sentence 3
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.
Originally called Fort-Lamy, it was founded in 1910 by the French during their colonization of Central Africa.
Who acts: Fort · What happens: call, found, colonize · To what, where: city, 1910, Central Africa · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (Fort), 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 | Originally | originally | ADV | _ | 2 called | advmod |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | Fort | Fort | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 called | xcomp |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lamy | punct |
| 5 | Lamy | Lamy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Fort | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 founded | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 founded | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 founded | aux:pass |
| 9 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Fort | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 1910 | case |
| 11 | 1910 | 1910 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 founded | obl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 French | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 French | det |
| 14 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 founded | obl |
| 15 | during | during | ADP | _ | 17 colonization | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 colonization | nmod:poss |
| 17 | colonization | colonization | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 founded | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Africa | case |
| 19 | Central | Central | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Africa | flat |
| 20 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 colonization | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | Fort and Lamy xcomp; originally property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | found | past · passive | Fort and Lamy not said here | city | 1910 | during Fort's colonization of Central Africa | by the French | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |
| 3 | colonize | Fort | Central Africa | nom colonization «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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