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title: Archaeological studies in and around Bangui have yielded at least 26… — Bangui · tree and pragmatics
description: Archaeological studies in and around Bangui have yielded at least 26 ancient Iron Age sites that contain many metallurgical tools and objects, illuminating the pre-European history of the city and surrounding area. Who acts: Archaeological studies, 26 ancient Age sites, many metallurgical tools. A s
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# Bangui, sentence 12

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From Wikipedia, [«Bangui»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangui), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Archaeological studies in and around Bangui have yielded at least 26 ancient Iron Age sites that contain many metallurgical tools and objects, illuminating the pre-European history of the city and surrounding area.

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**Who acts:** Archaeological studies, 26 ancient Age sites, many metallurgical tools · **What happens:** yield, contain, illuminate, surround · **To what, where:** 26 ancient Age sites, many metallurgical tools, pre-European history, area

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bangui». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Archaeological studies, 26 ancient Age sites, many metallurgical tools), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Bangui:12
# text = Archaeological studies in and around Bangui have yielded at least 26 ancient Iron Age sites that contain many metallurgical tools and objects, illuminating the pre-European history of the city and surrounding area.
1	Archaeological	archaeological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	studies	study	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	around	around	ADP	IN	_	3	conj	_	_
6	Bangui	Bangui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	yielded	yield	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	nmod	_	_
11	26	26	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
12	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	Iron	Iron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Age	Age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	sites	site	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	contain	contain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	metallurgical	metallurgical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	objects	object	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	illuminating	illuminate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	pre-European	pre-european	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	surrounding	surround	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	conj	_	_
33	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yield** | present · perfect | Archaeological studies in Bangui | 26 ancient Age sites |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent site=Theme |
| 2 | **contain** | present | 26 ancient Age sites | many metallurgical tools and objects |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tool=Theme |
| 3 | **illuminate** | gerund | many metallurgical tools and objects *not said here* | the pre-European history of the city |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Destination |
| 4 | **surround** | gerund | many metallurgical tools and objects *not said here* | area |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme area=Co-Theme |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Bangui», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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