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title: However, in 1961, the British Governor chose UP leader Pierre Sarr N… — The Gambia · tree and pragmatics
description: However, in 1961, the British Governor chose UP leader Pierre Sarr N'Jie to serve as the country's first head of government, in the form of a Chief Minister. Who acts: British Governor. A sentence of Wikipedia's «The Gambia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# The Gambia, sentence 143

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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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However, in 1961, the British Governor chose UP leader Pierre Sarr N'Jie to serve as the country's first head of government, in the form of a Chief Minister.

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**Who acts:** British Governor · **What happens:** choose up, serve, form · **To what, where:** Pierre Sarr, 1961, Chief Minister

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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 (British Governor), 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:143
# text = However, in 1961, the British Governor chose UP leader Pierre Sarr N'Jie to serve as the country's first head of government, in the form of a Chief Minister.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	1961	1961	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Governor	Governor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	UP	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	Pierre	Pierre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Sarr	Sarr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	N'Jie	N'Jie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	amod	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose up** | past | the British Governor | Pierre Sarr  leader |  | 1961 |  | however *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **serve** | to-infinitive | the British Governor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the country's first head of government; in the form of a Chief Minister | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent in form=Attribute |
| 3 | **form** |  |  | a Chief Minister |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: 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, «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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