The Gambia, sentence 293
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.
While urban migration, development projects, and modernisation are bringing more Gambians into contact with Western habits and values, indigenous forms of dress and celebration and the traditional emphasis on the extended family remain integral parts of everyday life.
Who acts: urban migration · What happens: bring, remain, form · To what, where: more Gambians, contact, integral parts, extended family, dress
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 (urban migration), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 bringing | mark |
| 2 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 migration | amod |
| 3 | migration | migration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bringing | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 projects | punct |
| 5 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 projects | compound |
| 6 | projects | project | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 migration | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 modernisation | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 modernisation | cc |
| 9 | modernisation | modernisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 migration | conj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 bringing | aux |
| 11 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 remain | advcl |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 Gambians | amod |
| 13 | Gambians | Gambian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 bringing | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 contact | case |
| 15 | contact | contact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bringing | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 habits | case |
| 17 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 habits | amod |
| 18 | habits | habit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 contact | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 values | cc |
| 20 | values | value | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 habits | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 forms | punct |
| 22 | indigenous | indigenous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 forms | amod |
| 23 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 habits | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 dress | case |
| 25 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 forms | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 celebration | cc |
| 27 | celebration | celebration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dress | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 emphasis | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 emphasis | det |
| 30 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 emphasis | amod |
| 31 | emphasis | emphasis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 contact | conj |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 family | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 family | det |
| 34 | extended | extended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 family | amod |
| 35 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 remain | obl |
| 36 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 37 | integral | integral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 parts | amod |
| 38 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 remain | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 life | case |
| 40 | everyday | everyday | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 life | amod |
| 41 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 parts | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 remain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present · progressive | urban migration and development projects and modernisation | more Gambians | contact with Western habits and values and indigenous forms of dress and celebration and the traditional emphasis | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gambian=Theme into contact=Destination | |||
| 2 | remain | present | integral parts of everyday life | the extended family | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme part=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | form | dress and celebration | 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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «The Gambia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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