The Gambia, sentence 94
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.
Ousainou Darboe, the leader of the UDP, and many senior members of his party were sent to jail for demanding the release of Solo Sandeng dead or alive.
Who acts: leader · What happens: send, demand · To what, where: many senior members, jail, release, Ousainou
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 (leader), 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 | Ousainou | Ousainou | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Darboe | Darboe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ousainou | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 leader | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 leader | det |
| 5 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ousainou | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 UDP | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 UDP | det |
| 8 | UDP | UDP | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 leader | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sent | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sent | cc |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 members | amod |
| 12 | senior | senior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 members | amod |
| 13 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 party | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 party | nmod:poss |
| 16 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 members | nmod |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sent | aux:pass |
| 18 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 leader | acl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 jail | case |
| 20 | jail | jail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sent | obl |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 demanding | mark |
| 22 | demanding | demand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 sent | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 release | det |
| 24 | release | release | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 demanding | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Sandeng | case |
| 26 | Solo | Solo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Sandeng | compound |
| 27 | Sandeng | Sandeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 release | nmod |
| 28 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Sandeng | amod |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 alive | cc |
| 30 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 dead | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ousainou | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | the leader of the UDP not said here | many senior members of UDP's party | jail | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to jail=Destination | |||
| 2 | demand speech: request | gerund | the leader of the UDP not said here | the release of Solo Sandeng | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme release=Precondition |
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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