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title: Bozizé refused to accept an arrest warrant and "defected with about… — Bangui · tree and pragmatics
description: Bozizé refused to accept an arrest warrant and "defected with about a hundred troops, engaged in street battles in the northern neighborhoods of Bangui (traditionally supporting Patassé)" and went north. Who acts: Bozizé. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bangui» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bangui, sentence 54

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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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Bozizé refused to accept an arrest warrant and "defected with about a hundred troops, engaged in street battles in the northern neighborhoods of Bangui (traditionally supporting Patassé)" and went north.

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**Who acts:** Bozizé · **What happens:** refuse, not accept, defect, engage, support, go · **To what, where:** arrest warrant, street battles, Patassé

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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 (Bozizé), 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:54
# text = Bozizé refused to accept an arrest warrant and "defected with about a hundred troops, engaged in street battles in the northern neighborhoods of Bangui (traditionally supporting Patassé)" and went north.
1	Bozizé	Bozizé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	arrest	arrest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	warrant	warrant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	defected	defect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	engaged	engage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	battles	battle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	neighborhoods	neighborhood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Bangui	Bangui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	traditionally	traditionally	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	supporting	support	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
30	Patassé	Patassé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
35	north	north	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **refuse** | past | Bozizé |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **accept** | to-infinitive | Bozizé *not said here* | a arrest warrant |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrant=Theme |
| 3 | **defect** *in a quote* | participle | Bozizé *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with hundred troops | tree rules |
| 4 | **engage** *in a quote* | participle |  | a arrest warrant *not said here* |  |  |  | in street battles *goal*; in the northern neighborhoods of Bangui | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in battle=Goal |
| 5 | **support** *in a quote* | gerund | Bozizé *not said here* | Patassé |  |  |  | traditionally *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer patassé=Stimulus |
| 6 | **go** | past | Bozizé *not said here* |  |  |  |  | north *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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