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title: According to a Gambian government minister, Banjul is at risk of sub… — Banjul · tree and pragmatics
description: According to a Gambian government minister, Banjul is at risk of submerging under water by a metre rise in sea levels as a result of climate change and global warming. Who acts: Banjul, risk. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Banjul» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Banjul, sentence 41

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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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According to a Gambian government minister, Banjul is at risk of submerging under water by a metre rise in sea levels as a result of climate change and global warming.

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**Who acts:** Banjul, risk · **What happens:** accord, be, submerge, result · **To what, where:** Gambian government minister, water, climate change

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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 (Banjul, risk), 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:41
# text = According to a Gambian government minister, Banjul is at risk of submerging under water by a metre rise in sea levels as a result of climate change and global warming.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	Gambian	gambian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	Banjul	Banjul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	risk	risk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	submerging	submerge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	under	under	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	metre	metre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	levels	level	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	global	global	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	warming	warming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to a Gambian government minister *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to minister=Goal |
| 2 | **is** | present | Banjul |  |  |  |  | accord risk | tree rules |
| 3 | **submerge** | gerund | risk *not said here* |  |  | water |  | by a metre rise in sea levels; as a result of climate change and global warming | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **result** |  |  | climate change and global warming |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=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, «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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