The Gambia, sentence 135
From Wikipedia, «The Gambia», 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.
However, the country never experienced political turnover during this period and its commitment to succession by the ballot box was never tested.
Who acts: country · What happens: turnover, not test · To what, where: experienced political turnover
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «The Gambia». 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 8 turnover | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 country | det |
| 4 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turnover | nsubj |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 experienced | advmod |
| 6 | experienced | experienced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 turnover | amod |
| 7 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 turnover | amod |
| 8 | turnover | turnover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tested | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | during | during | ADP | _ | 11 period | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 period | det |
| 11 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turnover | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 commitment | cc |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 commitment | nmod:poss |
| 14 | commitment | commitment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 period | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 succession | case |
| 16 | succession | succession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 commitment | nmod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 box | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 box | det |
| 19 | ballot | ballot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 box | compound |
| 20 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turnover | nmod |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 tested | aux:pass |
| 22 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 tested | advmod |
| 23 | tested | test | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 tested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turnover | the country | during this period and country's commitment to succession; never | by the ballot box; however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not test | past · passive | experienced political turnover | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.
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