The Gambia, sentence 178
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.
The 4 December 2021 election, the first since former dictator Yahya Jammeh fled into exile, was seen as crucial for the young democracy.
Who acts: December election · What happens: flee, see · To what, where: exile
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 (December election), 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 | 5 election | det |
| 2 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 December | nummod |
| 3 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 election | compound |
| 4 | 2021 | 2021 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 December | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | election | election | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fled | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 first | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 first | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 election | amod |
| 9 | since | since | ADP | _ | 11 dictator | case |
| 10 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dictator | amod |
| 11 | dictator | dictator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 first | obl |
| 12 | Yahya | Yahya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 dictator | appos |
| 13 | Jammeh | Jammeh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Yahya | flat |
| 14 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 exile | case |
| 16 | exile | exile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fled | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seen | punct |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 seen | aux:pass |
| 19 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 fled | conj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 crucial | case |
| 21 | crucial | crucial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 seen | obl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 democracy | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 democracy | det |
| 24 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 democracy | amod |
| 25 | democracy | democracy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seen | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | past | the December election | exile | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into exile=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past · passive | the December election not said here | as crucial; for the young democracy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as crucial=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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