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title: Originally called Fort-Lamy, it was founded in 1910 by the French du… — N'Djamena · tree and pragmatics
description: Originally called Fort-Lamy, it was founded in 1910 by the French during their colonization of Central Africa. Who acts: Fort. A sentence of Wikipedia's «N'Djamena» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# N'Djamena, sentence 3

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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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Originally called Fort-Lamy, it was founded in 1910 by the French during their colonization of Central Africa.

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**Who acts:** Fort · **What happens:** call, found, colonize · **To what, where:** city, 1910, Central Africa · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (Fort), 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:3
# text = Originally called Fort-Lamy, it was founded in 1910 by the French during their colonization of Central Africa.
1	Originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	Fort	Fort	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Lamy	Lamy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1910	1910	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	_
15	during	during	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	colonization	colonization	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
20	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | Fort and Lamy *xcomp*; originally *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **found** | past · passive | Fort and Lamy *not said here* | city |  | 1910 | during Fort's colonization of Central Africa | by the French | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **colonize** |  | Fort | Central Africa |  |  |  |  | nom colonization «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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