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title: In 1651, Banjul was leased by the Duke of Courland and Semigallia (G… — Banjul · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1651, Banjul was leased by the Duke of Courland and Semigallia (German: Herzog von Kurland und Semgallen) from the King of Kombo, as part of the Curonian colonization. Who acts: Duke. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Banjul» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Banjul, sentence 11

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From Wikipedia, [«Banjul»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjul), 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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In 1651, Banjul was leased by the Duke of Courland and Semigallia (German: Herzog von Kurland und Semgallen) from the King of Kombo, as part of the Curonian colonization.

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**Who acts:** Duke · **What happens:** lease · **To what, where:** Banjul, 1651

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Banjul». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duke), 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:Banjul:11
# text = In 1651, Banjul was leased by the Duke of Courland and Semigallia (German: Herzog von Kurland und Semgallen) from the King of Kombo, as part of the Curonian colonization.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1651	1651	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Banjul	Banjul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	leased	lease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Courland	Courland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Semigallia	Semigallia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	Herzog	Herzog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
18	von	von	PROPN	NNP	_	17	flat	_	_
19	Kurland	Kurland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	und	und	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
21	Semgallen	Semgallen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Kombo	Kombo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Curonian	curonian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	colonization	colonization	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lease** | past · passive | the Duke of Courland and Semigallia | Banjul |  | 1651 |  | Herzog Kurland und from the King of Kombo *obl*; part of the Curonian colonization *parataxis* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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, «Banjul», 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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