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title: The colony of Ubangi-Shari received its autonomy in 1958 as the Cent… — Bangui · tree and pragmatics
description: The colony of Ubangi-Shari received its autonomy in 1958 as the Central African Republic and became independent from France in 1960. Who acts: colony. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bangui» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bangui, sentence 24

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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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The colony of Ubangi-Shari received its autonomy in 1958 as the Central African Republic and became independent from France in 1960.

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**Who acts:** colony · **What happens:** receive, become · **To what, where:** autonomy, 1958, 1960

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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 (colony), 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:24
# text = The colony of Ubangi-Shari received its autonomy in 1958 as the Central African Republic and became independent from France in 1960.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ubangi	Ubangi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Shari	Shari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	autonomy	autonomy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1958	1958	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	Central	Central	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	African	African	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	1960	1960	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past | the colony of Ubangi and Shari | colony's autonomy |  | 1958 |  | as the Central African Republic | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent autonomy=Theme in 1958=Location |
| 2 | **become** | past | the colony of Ubangi and Shari *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in 1960 *result*; independent *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1960=Result |

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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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