The Gambia, sentence 363
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.
Senegalese yassa is also enjoyed widely; it features marinated fish or chicken seasoned with lemon, onions, and mustard, providing a sharp flavour that contrasts with the earthiness of many other dishes.
Who acts: yassa, sharp flavour · What happens: enjoy, feature, marinate, season, provide, contrast · To what, where: Senegalese yassa, marinated fish, chicken, sharp flavour
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 (yassa, sharp flavour), 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 | Senegalese | senegalese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 yassa | amod |
| 2 | yassa | yassa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 enjoyed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 enjoyed | aux:pass |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 enjoyed | advmod |
| 5 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 5 enjoyed | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 features | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 features | nsubj |
| 9 | features | feature | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 enjoyed | conj |
| 10 | marinated | marinate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 fish | amod |
| 11 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 features | obj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 chicken | cc |
| 13 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fish | conj |
| 14 | seasoned | season | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 chicken | acl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 lemon | case |
| 16 | lemon | lemon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seasoned | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 onions | punct |
| 18 | onions | onion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fish | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 mustard | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 mustard | cc |
| 21 | mustard | mustard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 features | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 providing | punct |
| 23 | providing | provide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 features | advcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 flavour | det |
| 25 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 flavour | amod |
| 26 | flavour | flavour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 providing | obj |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 contrasts | nsubj |
| 28 | contrasts | contrast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 flavour | acl:relcl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 earthiness | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 earthiness | det |
| 31 | earthiness | earthiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 contrasts | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 dishes | case |
| 33 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 dishes | amod |
| 34 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 dishes | amod |
| 35 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 earthiness | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 enjoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enjoy | present · passive | Senegalese yassa | widely property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | feature | present | yassa | marinated fish or chicken and onions | mustard obl | tree rules | |||
| 3 | marinate | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | season | participle | chicken not said here | with lemon | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with lemon=Theme | ||||
| 5 | provide | gerund | yassa not said here | a sharp flavour | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition flavour=Theme | ||||
| 6 | contrast | present | a sharp flavour | with the earthiness of many other dishes | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with earthiness=Co-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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