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title: In 1946 Barthélemy Boganda was elected with 9,000 votes to the Frenc… — Central African Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1946 Barthélemy Boganda was elected with 9,000 votes to the French National Assembly, becoming the first representative of the Central African Republic in the French government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Central African Republic» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Central African Republic, sentence 53

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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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In 1946 Barthélemy Boganda was elected with 9,000 votes to the French National Assembly, becoming the first representative of the Central African Republic in the French government.

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**What happens:** elect, become · **To what, where:** Barthélemy, 1946, first representative, French government

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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: 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:53
# text = In 1946 Barthélemy Boganda was elected with 9,000 votes to the French National Assembly, becoming the first representative of the Central African Republic in the French government.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1946	1946	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
3	Barthélemy	Barthélemy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	Boganda	Boganda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	9,000	9,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	votes	vote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Assembly	Assembly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	amod	_	_
19	representative	representative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	Central	Central	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	African	African	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **elect** | past · passive |  | Barthélemy |  | 1946 |  | with 9,000 votes to the French National Assembly | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | gerund |  | the first representative of the Central African Republic |  |  |  | in the French government *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in government=Result |

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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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