The Gambia, sentence 143
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, in 1961, the British Governor chose UP leader Pierre Sarr N'Jie to serve as the country's first head of government, in the form of a Chief Minister.
Who acts: British Governor · What happens: choose up, serve, form · To what, where: Pierre Sarr, 1961, Chief Minister
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 (British Governor), 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 | _ | 9 chose | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 1961 | case |
| 4 | 1961 | 1961 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 chose | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 1961 | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Governor | det |
| 7 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Governor | amod |
| 8 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 chose | nsubj |
| 9 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | UP | up | ADP | _ | 9 chose | compound:prt |
| 11 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Sarr | nsubj |
| 12 | Pierre | Pierre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Sarr | compound |
| 13 | Sarr | Sarr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 chose | obl |
| 14 | N'Jie | N'Jie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Sarr | flat |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 serve | mark |
| 16 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 chose | advcl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 head | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 country | det |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 country | case |
| 21 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 head | amod |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 serve | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 government | case |
| 24 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 head | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 form | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 form | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 form | det |
| 28 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 serve | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Minister | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 Minister | det |
| 31 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Minister | compound |
| 32 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 form | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 chose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose up | past | the British Governor | Pierre Sarr leader | 1961 | however property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | serve | to-infinitive | the British Governor not said here | as the country's first head of government; in the form of a Chief Minister | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent in form=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | form | a Chief Minister | nom form «communication transitive»: 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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