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title: After returning voluntarily to Bangui in the autumn of 1986, Bokassa… — Bangui · tree and pragmatics
description: After returning voluntarily to Bangui in the autumn of 1986, Bokassa went on trial. Who acts: Bokassa. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bangui» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bangui, sentence 35

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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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After returning voluntarily to Bangui in the autumn of 1986, Bokassa went on trial.

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**Who acts:** Bokassa · **What happens:** return, go · **To what, where:** Bangui, trial

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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 (Bokassa), 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:35
# text = After returning voluntarily to Bangui in the autumn of 1986, Bokassa went on trial.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
3	voluntarily	voluntarily	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Bangui	Bangui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1986	1986	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	Bokassa	Bokassa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | gerund | Bokassa *not said here* |  | Bangui |  | autumn | voluntarily *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to bangui=Result |
| 2 | **go** | past | Bokassa |  |  | trial |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on trial=Location |

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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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