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title: The Patassé government, the opposition parties, and religious groups… — Bangui · tree and pragmatics
description: The Patassé government, the opposition parties, and religious groups signed the Bangui Agreements in January 1997 which were a series of measures designed to reconcile competing political factions, reform and strengthen the economy. Who acts: Patassé government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bangui» wi
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# Bangui, sentence 50

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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 Patassé government, the opposition parties, and religious groups signed the Bangui Agreements in January 1997 which were a series of measures designed to reconcile competing political factions, reform and strengthen the economy.

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**Who acts:** Patassé government · **What happens:** sign, be, design, reconcile, compete, reform · **To what, where:** Bangui Agreements, series, measures, political factions, economy

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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 (Patassé government), 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:50
# text = The Patassé government, the opposition parties, and religious groups signed the Bangui Agreements in January 1997 which were a series of measures designed to reconcile competing political factions, reform and strengthen the economy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Patassé	Patassé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	opposition	opposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	signed	sign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Bangui	Bangui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Agreements	agreement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
18	1997	1997	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nmod:unmarked	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	series	series	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	measures	measure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	designed	design	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	reconcile	reconcile	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
28	competing	compete	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	xcomp	_	_
29	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	factions	faction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	reform	reform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	strengthen	strengthen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sign** | past | the Patassé government and the opposition parties | the Bangui Agreements |  |  |  | religious groups *nsubj* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent agreement=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a series |  |  | january | of measures; which *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **design** | participle |  | measures *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **reconcile** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **compete** | gerund |  | political factions |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **reform** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **strengthen** | infinitive |  | the economy |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent economy=Patient |

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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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