The Gambia, sentence 137
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.
After two years of direct rule, a new constitution was written and in 1996, the leader of the AFPRC, Yahya Jammeh, was elected as president.
What happens: write, elect · To what, where: new constitution, leader, 1996
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: 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 written | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 rule | case |
| 5 | direct | direct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rule | amod |
| 6 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 years | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 years | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 constitution | det |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 constitution | amod |
| 10 | constitution | constitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 written | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 written | aux:pass |
| 12 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 elected | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 1996 | case |
| 15 | 1996 | 1996 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 elected | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 1996 | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 leader | det |
| 18 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 elected | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 AFPRC | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 AFPRC | det |
| 21 | AFPRC | AFPRC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 leader | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Yahya | punct |
| 23 | Yahya | Yahya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 AFPRC | conj |
| 24 | Jammeh | Jammeh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Yahya | flat |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 leader | punct |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 elected | aux:pass |
| 27 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 written | conj |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 president | case |
| 29 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 elected | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past · passive | a new constitution | year | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | elect | past · passive | the leader of the AFPRC and Yahya | 1996 | as president | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as president=Attribute |
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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