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title: From the 19th century until 24 April 1973, the city was known as Bat… — Banjul · tree and pragmatics
description: From the 19th century until 24 April 1973, the city was known as Bathurst. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Banjul» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Banjul, sentence 6

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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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From the 19th century until 24 April 1973, the city was known as Bathurst.

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**What happens:** know · **To what, where:** city

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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: 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:6
# text = From the 19th century until 24 April 1973, the city was known as Bathurst.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	until	until	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	1973	1973	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Bathurst	Bathurst	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past · passive |  | the city |  |  | century | as Bathurst | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as bathurst=Attribute |

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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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