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title: The city became an amalgamation of villages, with many refugees and… — Juba · tree and pragmatics
description: The city became an amalgamation of villages, with many refugees and returnees mimicking their old way of living. Who acts: city, many refugees. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Juba» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Juba, sentence 33

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From Wikipedia, [«Juba»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juba), 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 city became an amalgamation of villages, with many refugees and returnees mimicking their old way of living.

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**Who acts:** city, many refugees · **What happens:** become, mimic · **To what, where:** amalgamation, old way

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Juba». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city, many refugees), 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:Juba:33
# text = The city became an amalgamation of villages, with many refugees and returnees mimicking their old way of living.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	amalgamation	amalgamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	refugees	refugee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	returnees	returnee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	mimicking	mimic	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the city | a amalgamation of villages |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **mimic** | gerund | many refugees and returnees | refugees's old way of living |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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, «Juba», 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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