The Gambia, sentence 371
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.
Two days after the 2004 legislation was passed, a co-founder and editor of the newspaper The Point, Deyda Hydara, was shot to death.
What happens: pass, shoot · To what, where: 2004 legislation, death
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: 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 passed | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 legislation | det |
| 5 | 2004 | 2004 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 legislation | compound |
| 6 | legislation | legislation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 passed | aux:pass |
| 8 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 co-founder | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 co-founder | det |
| 11 | co-founder | co-founder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 passed | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 editor | cc |
| 13 | editor | editor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 co-founder | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 newspaper | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 newspaper | det |
| 16 | newspaper | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 co-founder | nmod |
| 17 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Point | det |
| 18 | Point | Point | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 newspaper | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Deyda | punct |
| 20 | Deyda | Deyda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Point | appos |
| 21 | Hydara | Hydara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Deyda | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 shot | punct |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 shot | aux:pass |
| 24 | shot | shoot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 passed | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 death | case |
| 26 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shot | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · passive | the 2004 legislation | day | a co-founder of the newspaper and editor obl | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | shoot | past · passive | death | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: to death=Destination |
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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