The Gambia, sentence 43
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.
Letters patent from Queen Elizabeth I confirmed the grant.
Who acts: Letters, I · What happens: patent, confirm · To what, where: Elizabeth, grant
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 (Letters, I), 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 | Letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 patent | nsubj |
| 2 | patent | patent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Elizabeth | case |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Elizabeth | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Elizabeth | Elizabeth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 patent | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 confirmed | nsubj |
| 7 | confirmed | confirm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 patent | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 grant | det |
| 9 | grant | grant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 confirmed | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 patent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | patent | present | Letters | Elizabeth Queen | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | confirm | past | I | the grant | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot grant=Topic |
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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