The Gambia, sentence 182
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.
No reference was made to term limits, indicating Jammeh's preference to stay in power for an extended period of time.
Who acts: Jammeh · What happens: make, indicate, stay, prefer · To what, where: reference, preference, power
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 (Jammeh), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 reference | det |
| 2 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 limits | mark |
| 6 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 limits | compound |
| 7 | limits | limit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 indicating | punct |
| 9 | indicating | indicate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 made | advcl |
| 10 | Jammeh | Jammeh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 preference | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Jammeh | case |
| 12 | preference | preference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 indicating | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 stay | mark |
| 14 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 indicating | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 power | case |
| 16 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stay | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 period | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 period | det |
| 19 | extended | extended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 period | amod |
| 20 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stay | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 period | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | no reference | term limits xcomp | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | indicate | gerund | Jammeh's preference | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot preference=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stay | to-infinitive | power | for a extended period of time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in power=Location | ||||
| 4 | prefer | Jammeh | nom preference «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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