The Gambia, sentence 56
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.
In 1891, a joint Anglo-French Boundary Commission faced resistance from local leaders whose lands would be divided.
Who acts: joint · What happens: face, divide · To what, where: resistance, lands
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 (joint), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1891 | case |
| 2 | 1891 | 1891 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 faced | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1891 | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 joint | det |
| 5 | joint | joint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 faced | nsubj |
| 6 | Anglo | Anglo | X | _ | 10 Commission | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Anglo | punct |
| 8 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Commission | amod |
| 9 | Boundary | Boundary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Commission | compound |
| 10 | Commission | Commission | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 joint | nmod |
| 11 | faced | face | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | resistance | resistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 faced | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 leaders | case |
| 14 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 leaders | amod |
| 15 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 faced | obl |
| 16 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 17 lands | nmod:poss |
| 17 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 divided | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 divided | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 divided | aux:pass |
| 20 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 leaders | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 faced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | face | past | a joint Anglo French Boundary Commission | resistance | from local leaders; in 1891 | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent resistance=Destination in 1891=Theme | |||
| 2 | divide | would · passive | lands | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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