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title: River ferries sail from the river port at Bangui to Brazzaville and… — Central African Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: River ferries sail from the river port at Bangui to Brazzaville and Zongo. Who acts: River ferries. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Central African Republic» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Central African Republic, sentence 225

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From Wikipedia, [«Central African Republic»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_African_Republic), 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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River ferries sail from the river port at Bangui to Brazzaville and Zongo.

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**Who acts:** River ferries · **What happens:** sail · **To what, where:** river port

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Central African Republic». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (River ferries), 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:Central_African_Republic:225
# text = River ferries sail from the river port at Bangui to Brazzaville and Zongo.
1	River	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	ferries	ferry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sail	sail	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Bangui	Bangui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Brazzaville	Brazzaville	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Zongo	Zongo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | present | River ferries |  |  | the river port at Bangui to Brazzaville and Zongo |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from port=Trajectory |

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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, «Central African Republic», 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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