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title: On 13 April 2006, a rebel United Front for Democratic Change attack… — N'Djamena · tree and pragmatics
description: On 13 April 2006, a rebel United Front for Democratic Change attack on the city was defeated in the Battle of N'Djamena. A sentence of Wikipedia's «N'Djamena» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# N'Djamena, sentence 49

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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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On 13 April 2006, a rebel United Front for Democratic Change attack on the city was defeated in the Battle of N'Djamena.

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**What happens:** defeat · **To what, where:** rebel, Battle

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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:49
# text = On 13 April 2006, a rebel United Front for Democratic Change attack on the city was defeated in the Battle of N'Djamena.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
4	2006	2006	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rebel	rebel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	appos	_	_
9	Front	Front	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	Democratic	Democratic	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Change	Change	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	defeated	defeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Battle	Battle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	N'Djamena	N'Djamena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **defeat** | past · passive |  | a rebel for Change attack on the city |  | the Battle of N'Djamena | april |  | 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, «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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