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title: The city was divided into five electoral sections, each with a certa… — N'Djamena · tree and pragmatics
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# N'Djamena, sentence 25

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From Wikipedia, [«N'Djamena»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%27Djamena), 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 was divided into five electoral sections, each with a certain number of assigned seats on the thirty-three-seat municipal council based on population.

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**What happens:** divide, assign, base · **To what, where:** city, five electoral sections, seat municipal council, population

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «N'Djamena». 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:N'Djamena:25
# text = The city was divided into five electoral sections, each with a certain number of assigned seats on the thirty-three-seat municipal council based on population.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	electoral	electoral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sections	section	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	appos	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	assigned	assign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
20	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	municipal	municipal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
27	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **divide** | past · passive |  | the city |  | five electoral sections |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **assign** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **base** | participle |  | the seat municipal council *not said here* |  | population |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on population=Source |

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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, «N'Djamena», 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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