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title: Pygmy hippopotamuses and crocodiles may be found in the river system… — The Gambia · tree and pragmatics
description: Pygmy hippopotamuses and crocodiles may be found in the river system, while common African species such as chimpanzees, baboons, antelopes, and warthogs are also present. Who acts: warthogs. A sentence of Wikipedia's «The Gambia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# The Gambia, sentence 130

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From Wikipedia, [«The Gambia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gambia), 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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Pygmy hippopotamuses and crocodiles may be found in the river system, while common African species such as chimpanzees, baboons, antelopes, and warthogs are also present.

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**Who acts:** warthogs · **What happens:** find, be · **To what, where:** Pygmy hippopotamuses, river system

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «The Gambia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (warthogs), 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:The_Gambia:130
# text = Pygmy hippopotamuses and crocodiles may be found in the river system, while common African species such as chimpanzees, baboons, antelopes, and warthogs are also present.
1	Pygmy	pygmy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	hippopotamuses	hippopotamus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	species	species	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
17	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	19	case	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	chimpanzees	chimpanzee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	baboons	baboon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	antelopes	antelope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	warthogs	warthog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	also	also	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | may · passive |  | Pygmy hippopotamuses and crocodiles |  | the river system |  | common African species such chimpanzees and baboons and antelopes *obl* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | warthogs |  |  |  |  | present *property* | 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, «The Gambia», 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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