The Gambia, sentence 62
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.
Though these soldiers fought mostly in Burma, some died closer to home and a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery is in Fajara (close to Banjul).
Who acts: soldiers, some, Commission cemetery · What happens: fight, die, be · To what, where: Burma, Fajara
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 (soldiers, some, Commission cemetery), 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 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 4 fought | mark |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 soldiers | det |
| 3 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fought | nsubj |
| 4 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 died | advcl |
| 5 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 4 fought | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Burma | case |
| 7 | Burma | Burma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fought | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fought | punct |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 died | nsubj |
| 10 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 died | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 home | case |
| 13 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 closer | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Fajara | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cemetery | det |
| 16 | Commonwealth | Commonwealth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 War | compound |
| 17 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Commission | compound |
| 18 | Graves | Graves | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Commission | compound |
| 19 | Commission | Commission | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 cemetery | compound |
| 20 | cemetery | cemetery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Fajara | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 Fajara | cop |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 Fajara | case |
| 23 | Fajara | Fajara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 died | conj |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 close | punct |
| 25 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Fajara | appos |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Banjul | case |
| 27 | Banjul | Banjul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 close | obl |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 close | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | this soldiers | Burma | mostly property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | die | past | some | close property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | is | present | a Commission cemetery | Fajara | tree rules |
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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