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title: The Mandinka were the second largest African group, followed by the… — Banjul · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mandinka were the second largest African group, followed by the Jola as well as the Fula. Who acts: Mandinka. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Banjul» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Banjul, sentence 23

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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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The Mandinka were the second largest African group, followed by the Jola as well as the Fula.

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**Who acts:** Mandinka · **What happens:** be, follow · **To what, where:** second largest African group

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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 (Mandinka), 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:23
# text = The Mandinka were the second largest African group, followed by the Jola as well as the Fula.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mandinka	Mandinka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
6	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
7	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Jola	Jola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl:agent	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	18	cc	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	fixed	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Fula	Fula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the Mandinka | the second largest African group |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | participle |  | the second largest African group *not said here* |  |  |  | the Jola *obl:agent*; the Fula *conj* | vn occur-48.3-1 «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, «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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