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title: Although he attempted to combat corruption and control the national… — Bangui · tree and pragmatics
description: Although he attempted to combat corruption and control the national economy, he was unable to achieve his reforms. Who acts: country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bangui» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bangui, sentence 38

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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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Although he attempted to combat corruption and control the national economy, he was unable to achieve his reforms.

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**Who acts:** country · **What happens:** attempt, combat, control, be, achieve, reform · **To what, where:** corruption, national economy, reforms

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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 (country), 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:38
# text = Although he attempted to combat corruption and control the national economy, he was unable to achieve his reforms.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	attempted	attempt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	combat	combat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	corruption	corruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	control	control	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	achieve	achieve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	reforms	reform	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attempt** | past | country |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **combat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | country *not said here* | corruption |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corruption=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **control** | infinitive | country *not said here* | the national economy |  |  |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent economy=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | country |  |  |  |  | unable *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **achieve** | to-infinitive | country *not said here* | country's reforms |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reform=Eventuality |
| 6 | **reform** |  | country |  |  |  |  |  | nom reform «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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